Best PM/President Combinations

The aim of game here is simple, come up with a list of alternate UK PMs and US Presidents that would have worked incredibly well together and enhanced the special relationship.

If you want come up with the events that led the two leaders to serve at the same time, why they worked so well together and what issues/challenges they faced together.

I would start myself but I'm crap at this, I'm just interested in what the more learned members of the forum come up with.
 
Nick Clegg and Barack Obama- Okay, Clegg is kind of ASB, but for a time he was quite similar to Obama, a liberal figure that inspired hope about changing politics for the better, and they seemed to have similar ideas too, even though both were likely perceived as more left wing than they actually were.

Michael Gove and Ted Cruz- Both strong believers in the free market and suspicious of federal authority. Gove is probably a bit to the left of Cruz but not by a great deal. They also could bond over how most people don't like them.
 
Nick Clegg and Barack Obama- Okay, Clegg is kind of ASB, but for a time he was quite similar to Obama, a liberal figure that inspired hope about changing politics for the better, and they seemed to have similar ideas too, even though both were likely perceived as more left wing than they actually were.

Michael Gove and Ted Cruz- Both strong believers in the free market and suspicious of federal authority. Gove is probably a bit to the left of Cruz but not by a great deal. They also could bond over how most people don't like them.
And how they look like goblins ;)

In all seriousness though there is a huge gulf between the social views the two hold - Cruz is a rabid reactionary whilst Gove is a somewhat soggy liberal...
 
Joe Biden and Neil Kinnock? They're somewhat similar in background and politics, if I recall correctly.
 
And how they look like goblins ;)

In all seriousness though there is a huge gulf between the social views the two hold - Cruz is a rabid reactionary whilst Gove is a somewhat soggy liberal...
That won't necessarily have any impact on their personal relationship. Remember that Tony Blair and George Bush were hardly identical politically.
 
That won't necessarily have any impact on their personal relationship. Remember that Tony Blair and George Bush were hardly identical politically.
True, but in that case this is an irrelevant task since it's more about personal chemistry (something we're unlikely to be able to ascertain) rather than political views... I tend to find people are more likely to dislike those with different social views to them moreso than those with different economic ones as well...
 
The best one I can think of are these two for 1968
- Enoch Powell and George Wallace
- Harold Wilson and Herbert H. Humphreys
 
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