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"The TV anchors talk up the market and people in my WhatsApp group boast about their stock market gains," he says.

But he may talk up both the UK's commitment and his calls for other European allies to do likewise.

Trump has continued to talk up the plan in recent days, brushing aside questions not only about its viability in practical terms, but objections from human rights groups and others that it would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing.

Government sources here in the UK talk up what they see as "the alignment of priorities" between London and Washington on getting our economies growing.

But, whatever the outcome, expect the Northern Ireland secretary to talk up the prospect of a new deal with the EU removing the need for any brake.