Week two of the new Labour government begins and Sir Keir Starmer is finding foreign affairs taking up the lion’s share of his attention.

His first task as prime minister was travelling to the Nato summit in Washington DC, where he, in common with other world leaders, was pressed into commenting on President Biden’s fitness for office. (“On really good form” was Sir Keir’s assessment.)

He was hardly back in Downing Street when news came of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Sir Keir may not have been familiar with the town of Butler, Pennsylvania before yesterday, but like the rest of the world he knows it now.

What happened there at 18.11 local time could have a profound impact not just on the 2024 race for the White House, but on politics in general, in the US and other democracies.

Some effects will take longer to pinpoint than others, but time and news cycles wait for no broadcaster. With the details still emerging it fell to the Sunday shows, here and later in the US, to take a first pass at what the events in Pennsylvania might mean.

The UK shows had planned to take a relatively sedate look at the King’s speech on Wednesday. Instead of abandoning this entirely, the broadcasters adopted a make do and mix strategy that blended the two.

It did not always work, as when BBC1’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg finished the show with a chat about the Euro 2024 final. The presenter’s “time for something completely different” link only made the........

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