Aldrich, Richard, GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain’s Most Secret Intelligence Agency (London, HarperPress, 2010).
Allegretti, Aubrey, “Trump’s tariffs threaten UK defence budget, Treasury warned”, The Times, 20 January 2025, <https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/trumps-tariffs-threaten-uk-defence-budget-treasury-warned-5m2x0qbjv> [27 June 2025].
Baylis, John, Anglo-American Defence Relations 1939-1984 (London: Macmillan, 1984).
Baylis, John, “The 1958 Anglo-American Mutual Defence Agreement: The Search for Nuclear Interdependence”, The Journal of Strategic Studies 31:3, 2008, pp. 425-466. DOI: 10.1080/01402390802024726
Bloom, Dan, “Inside UK Labour’s push for a US special relationship–even with Trump”, Politico, 2 June 2024, <https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-elections-labour-keir-starmer-relationship-us-elections-donald-trump/> [27 June 2025].
Boycott-Owen, Mason, “Can Britain live without American intelligence?”, Politico, 7 April 2025, <https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-us-intelligence-relationship-strain-allies-ukraine-app/> [27 June 2025].
Brown, Larisa and Waterfield, Bruno, “UK under dual pressure to increase defence spending now”, The Times, 5 June 2025, <https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/uk-under-dual-pressure-to-increase-defence-spending-now-0pf8jxftd> [27 June 2025].
Burns, Alexander, “Bidenism Is Gasping in America. It’s Having a Moment in Britain”, Politico, 24 May 2024, <https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/24/britain-labour-biden-centrist-00159727> [27 June 2025].
Change, The Labour Party Manifesto (London: The Labour Party, 2024).
Charter, David, “Make or break–Britain’s ‘special relationship’ with US teeters on edge”, The Times, 19 January 2025, <https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/make-or-break-britains-special-relationship-with-us-teeters-on-edge-28vvmjhkr> [27 June 2025].
Danchev, Alex, “On Specialness”, International Affairs 72:4, 1996, pp. 737-750. DOI: 10.2307/2624119
Dawber, Alistair, McDonald-Gibson, Charlotte et Wright, Oliver, “How Keir Starmer charmed Trump with a letter from King Charles”, The Times, 27 February 2025, <https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/starmer-trump-highlights-key-moments-9g80cc77d> [27 June 2025].
Diver, Tony, Gutteridge, Nick and Lateef, Samaan, “Trump allies urge President to block Starmer’s Chagos deal over Iran spying fears”, The Daily Telegraph, 25 January 2025, <https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/25/trump-allies-urge-block-starmer-chagos-deal-iran-spying/> [27 June 2025].
Dowding, Keith and Kimber, Richard, “The Meaning and Use of ‘Political Stability’”, European Journal of Political Research 11:3, 1983, pp. 229-243. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1983.tb00060.x
Dumbrell, John, “The US-UK ‘Special Relationship’ in a world twice transformed”, Cambridge Review of International Affairs 17:3, 2004, pp. 437-450. DOI: 10.1080/0955757042000296946
Dumbrell, John, Anglo-American Relations from the Cold War to Iraq (London: Palgrave, 2006).
Dumbrell, John, “The US-UK Special Relationship: Taking the 21st-Century Temperature”, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations 11, 2009, pp. 64-78. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-856x.2008.00352.x
Gioe, David V., “How America’s Allies Boost U.S. Intelligence”, Foreign Affairs, 13 February 2025, <https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/how-americas-allies-boost-us-intelligence> [27 June 2025].
Grylls, George, “How Keir Starmer was quick to court Donald Trump with a 10-minute call”, The Times, 15 July 2024, <https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/how-keir-starmer-was-quick-to-court-donald-trump-with-a-10-minute-call-c53vz6pf5> [27 June 2025].
Grylls, George, “Inside Labour’s foreign policy: the key issues facing Keir Starmer”, The Times, 27 June 2024, <https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/labour-foreign-policy-keir-starmer-government-xld8h9fwd> [27 June 2025].
Holl-Allen, Genevieve, “Lammy refuses to say he was wrong to call Trump ‘neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath’”, The Telegraph, 18 July 2024, <https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/18/david-lammy-foreign-secretary-donald-trump-sociopath/> [27 June 2025].
Holmes, Richard, “Trump could threaten to withhold intelligence from UK, security sources warn”, The Independent, 7 November 2024, <https://inews.co.uk/news/trump-threaten-withhold-intelligence-uk-security-3368958?> [27 June 2025].
Honeycombe-Foster, Matt, “Labour’s Keir Starmer: I’ll make it work if Donald Trump wins”, Politico, 28 September 2023, <https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-labour-keir-starmer-make-it-work-if-us-donald-trump-wins/> [27 June 2025].
Honeyman, Victoria, “George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and John Major: A Tale of Two Relationships”, in Michael Patrick Cullinane and Martin Farr (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Presidents and Prime Ministers From Cleveland and Salisbury to Trump and Johnson (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) pp. 297-318. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-72276-0_14
International Relations and Defence Committee, Corrected oral evidence: The UK’s future relationship with the US (London: House of Lords, 5 March 2025).
Judah, Ben, A “Washington Strategy” for British Diplomacy (London: Policy Exchange, 2021).
Lammy, David, “Labour’s foreign policy will be realistic about us as a nation, not nostalgic about what we used to be”, The Guardian, 17 April 2024, <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/17/labours-foreign-policy-realistic-not-nostalgic-progressive-realism> [27 June 2025].
Lammy, David, Britain Reconnected. A Foreign Policy for Security and Prosperity at Home (London: The Fabian Society, 2023).
Landler, Mark, “Britain to Name Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to the U.S.”, The New York Times, 19 December 2024, <https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/world/europe/uk-peter-mandelson-us-ambassador.html> [27 June 2025].
Landler, Mark, “Trump Accuses U.K. Party of Election Meddling, Despite Links to Its Rivals”, The New York Times, 23 October 2024, <https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/world/europe/uk-labour-party-trump.html> [27 June 2025].
Marsh, Steve, “The US, BREXIT and Anglo-American relations”, Journal of Transatlantic Studies 16:3, 2018, pp. 272-294.
Martin, Laurence and Garnett, John, British Foreign Policy: Challenges and Choices for the Twenty-First Century (London, Pinter/RIIA), 1997.
Messmer, Marion and O’Sullivan, Olivia, “The UK’s nuclear deterrent relies on US support–but there are no other easy alternatives”, Chatham House, 16 April 2025, <https://www.chathamhouse.org/2025/03/uks-nuclear-deterrent-relies-us-support-there-are-no-other-easy-alternatives> [27 June 2025].
Mills, Claire, Amendments to the UK-US Mutual Defence Agreement (London: House of Commons Library, 2024).
Ministry of Defence, The Strategic Defence Review 2025. Making Britain Safer: secure at home, strong abroad (London: Crown, 2025).
Oakeshott, Isabel, “Britain’s man in the US says Trump is ‘inept’”, The Mail on Sunday, 6 July 2019, <https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7220335/Britains-man-says-Trump-inept-Cables-ambassador-say-dysfunctional.html> [27 June 2025].
Quinn, Ben, “US support to maintain UK’s nuclear arsenal is in doubt, experts say”, The Guardian, 8 March 2025, <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/08/us-support-uk-nuclear-arsenal-in-doubt-trident-france> [27 June 2025].
Rasmussen, Jorgen and McCormick, James, “British Mass Perceptions of the Anglo-American Special Relationship”, Political Science Quarterly 108:3, 2013, pp. 515-541. DOI: 10.2307/2151702
Renwick, Sir Robin, Fighting with Allies: America and Britain in Peace and War (London: Macmillan, 1996).
Reynolds, David, “Roosevelt, Churchill and the wartime Anglo-American alliance, 1935-1945: towards a new synthesis”, in Hedley Bull and William Roger Louis (eds.), The “Special Relationship”: Anglo-American relations since 1945 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986).
Reynolds, David, “The End of the Special Relationship?”, The Wall Street Journal, 19 July 2019, <https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-end-of-the-special-relationship-11563544911> [27 June 2025].
Richelson, Jeffrey and Ball, Desmond, The Ties That Bind: Intelligence Cooperation Between the UKUSA Countries (London: Allen and Unwin, 1985).
Swinford, Steven and Wright, Oliver, “How Starmer will deal with Trump over trade, tariffs and Ukraine”, The Times, 8 November 2024, <https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/how-starmer-will-deal-with-trump-over-trade-tariffs-and-ukraine-59tv99smc> [27 June 2025].
Swinford, Steven, “Peter Mandelson picked by Starmer as UK’s ambassador to US”, The Times, 19 December 2024, <https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/lord-mandelson-ambassador-us-keir-starmer-trump-t3c59sffj> [27 June 2025].
Swinford, Steven, “Revealed: What Trump really said to Keir Starmer”, The Times, 3 January 2025, <https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/donald-trump-said-to-keir-starmer-j8zszj00h> [27 June 2025].
Swinford, Steven, “What a Trump presidency means for the UK”, The Times, 7 November 2024, <https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/trump-harris-presidency-uk-snss6cgjv> [27 June 2025].
Swinford, Steven, “Why Labour’s involvement in US election is so damaging”, The Times, 23 October 2024, <https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/labour-us-election-trump-starmer-meddling-jhvhpf3j7> [27 June 2025].
The White House, Remarks by President Trump and Prime Minister May of the United Kingdom in Joint Press Conference, 13 July 2018, <https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-prime-minister-may-united-kingdom-joint-press-conference/> [27 June 2025].
UK Government, Global Britain in a Competitive Age (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 2021).
UK Government, Joint Leaders statement to mark the third anniversary of AUKUS, 17 September 2024, <https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/09/17/joint-leaders-statement-to-mark-the-third-anniversary-of-aukus/> [27 June 2025].
UK Government, PM call with President Trump, 26 January 2025, <https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-call-with-president-trump-of-the-united-states-26-january-2025> [27 June 2025].
UK Government, PM call with President-elect Trump, 6 November 2024, <https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-call-with-president-elect-trump-6-november-2024> [27 June 2025].
Wallace, William and Phillips, Christopher, “Reassessing the special relationship”, International Affairs 85:2, 2009, pp. 263-284. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2009.00793.x
Wilson, Graham K., “Brexit, Trump and the special relationship”, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations 19:3, 2017, pp. 543-557. DOI: 10.1177/1369148117713719
Xu, Ruike, Rees, Wyn, “American and the Special Relationship: the impact of the Trump administration on relation with the UK”, British Politics 17:1, 2022, pp. 62-80. DOI: 10.1057/s41293-021-00198-0



