We’d miss Trump under a President Pence

DURING his visit to Washington this week, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt made sure he met Vice President Mike Pence.

And for very good reason. Hunt has calculated that Pence may become president within months, considering Donald Trump’s increasing problems. If Trump decides to quit the White House — or is forced out — Pence would automatically become America’s 46th president.

Canny Hunt realises that this might not be good news for Britain.

For all his faults, Trump, whose mother was Scottish, is at heart pro- British. Pence has no such British ancestry.

What’s more, while Trump generally opposes military intervention overseas, Pence is a military hawk.

In future years, we may look back at the good old days of President Trump.