Trump’s stunt using Murdoch’s Sun tabloid as a cudgel against the current Tory party’s policy on Brexit made many Brits long for a celluloid response.
The stand-off has even drawn comparisons with frosty UK-US relations in festive romantic comedy Love Actually - minus Martine McCutcheon- in which the Prime Minister, played by Hugh Grant, stands up to the US President, played by the imposing Billy Bob Thornton.
“I fear that this has become a bad relationship,” the fictional PM says, accusing the president of “taking exactly what he wants”.
The symbolism in the film Love Actually, was really more about (new) Labour’s Tony Blair and Democrat Bill Clinton, even if Trump would be more closely cast as a groping POTUS, doing the Billy Bob Thornton bully role accurately.