Welcome to a new week and Monday’s edition of Washington Secrets. It’s a United Kingdom special. Priti Patel, Britain’s shadow foreign secretary, explains why her Conservative Party is the natural ally of the Republican Party, rather than any Voldemorts, and we have the inside story of Nigel Farage’s fruitless quest to meet Donald Trump at the weekend.

The British shadow foreign secretary was in Washington to lobby U.S. officials to prevent London from giving away the Chagos Islands, home to an American naval base, to Mauritius.