The US vice president is beginning his UK holiday with a visit to the foreign secretary. Since when were they so close?

JD Vance and his family are spending two nights at the country residence of the British foreign secretary, David Lammy, with whom he has a somewhat unlikely friendship.

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy's 17th-century official county residence was the setting for U.K.-U.S. bilateral talks with U.S. Vice President JD Vance.