Kate Burrows-Jones, North America Editor .
Distinguished as the first world leader to make an official visit to the new American president, Prime Minister Theresa May stood out as something else, 
an articulate and persuasive, Twenty First Century Iron Lady. She reminded her Republican audience of the best of Britain and America’s grand mutual historic past through world war and cold war, “It is the relationship between us that has defined the modern world.” She touched down on the common ground of British conservatism and Republican ideals of liberty, representative government, the dignity of work, the principle of nationhood, fiscal responsibility.