wooing

That is why last week in Washington, we saw the French president and the UK prime minister, separately, wooing Donald Trump.

The triple lock was introduced by David Cameron's 2010 coalition government and has proved a reliable way of wooing the grey vote for every administration since.

As party chairman, he was given the job of professionalising the party, wooing donors and increasing Reform UK's activist base.

It was an earlier US President, Richard Nixon, and his secretary of state Henry Kissinger who had laid the groundwork for wooing what was then Mao's China.

Prescott sometimes had an unconventional way of wooing voters, which on one famous occasion stretched to punching one of them.