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The NATO meeting is held in a tense context for Alliance members, and the presence of the highly unpredictable US President Donald Trump is a high-risk parenthesis whose conservatives would have gone well to nine days of early legislative elections.
With our correspondent in London, Muriel Delcroix
At his first press conference on Tuesday morning, Donald Trump promised that he would not interfere with the British Legislature even though he could not help slipping that he was a fan of Brexit and that Boris Johnson " A very competent man " would do " very good work ".
Above all, the US president assured that the United States was not interested in the NHS, the public health services " even if they were presented on a platter ".
A " friend " who wants you well
Donald Trump has clearly understood the message, but conservative strategists still have to clench their teeth and hope that the president will keep his distance from his " friend Boris ".
The head of the White House is far too unpopular in the UK for his support to be an asset. Moreover, since the beginning of the campaign, the opponents of Boris Johnson, leading Labor, shake the scarecrow Trump, and accusing the Conservatives of wanting to sell the public health system to the Americans for a post-Brexit trade agreement.
Jeremy Corbyn multiplies the provocations: he sent a letter to the American president reminding that the NHS was not for sale and hopes to exchange a few words with Donald Trump during the banquet organized by the Queen in Buckingham in the evening.