A Conservative Party leadership contest and differences over Huawei and Iran are likely to test the resolve of the 'special relationship.'
The first lady of the United States, Melania Trump, and the president arrived in the U.K. to begin theiron Monday. It will include a private lunch and banquet dinner at Buckingham Palace with Queen Elizabeth II, tea with Prince Charles and a visit to Westminster Abbey.
"I would say the special relationship is certainly on shaky ground," Cailin Birch, global economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit , told CNBC via telephone. Some in the U.S. and U.K. have prided themselves on sharing a cultural, political and commercial bond that has long been called the "special relationship."
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