Donald Trump and Boris Johnson just can’t help being linked together

Both the president and the prime minister have been under pressure over their response to the coronavirus pandemic and how to ease lockdown, writes Chris Stevenson

Donald Trump in his mask branded with the presidential seal (AP)

Boris Johnson and Donald Trump were officially pictured wearing masks out in public for the first time within 24 hours of each other. That got me thinking.

A common theme among a number of the letters we receive at The Independent are comparisons between the two leaders – not positive ones for either man in the majority of cases.

Both Johnson and Trump have been under pressure over their response to the coronavirus pandemic and how to ease lockdown (although the increase in cases across the US is certainly much more steep than is seen in the UK recently).