Labour tries to seem in control while The Donald unleashes chaos on the world | John Crace

The Sun-Bed King made his way to the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday .

He might as well have been signposting the odds on a global recession.

But hey, hey, it was a great day for those currency traders who had bet on the value of the dollar falling.

Earlier in the day Kemi Badenoch had been surprisingly supportive of the government.

But the leader of the opposition’s collegiality hadn’t reached Andrew Griffith , the shadow business secretary.

Griffith insisted Labour ought to have negotiated a free trade deal with the US and not to have done so was negligence.