Last Thursday, the starting gun was fired on the US election campaign as Joe Biden and Donald Trump faced off in the first presidential debate. The debate took place 24 hours after the final head-to-head debate here in the UK between Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer.
There will of course be many similarities between these overlapping campaigns. The themes that have dominated the British campaign – the economy, Ukraine, tax, the scale of immigration and healthcare – can be expected to feature in my home country. These issues are global problems shared across the developed world.
And yet one major issue in the upcoming US campaign has been absent from discussion over here: abortion.