Recent US government papers describe Washington’s anger with the new aviation passenger duty, Britain’s extradition arrangements with America and lax visa checks on Pakistanis coming to Britain. The private views of US diplomats include concerns about the new aviation passenger duty which came into force on November 1, which increased the tax on flying to the US by a third. The UK coalition government’s commitment to review what it describes as the one way extradition treaty with the US is also a key concern as are lax immigration rules that the US says have allowed potential terror suspects to enter

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