The big news here is that nothing happened and nothing is gonna happen. People should start getting some clues from what should happen, and yet doesn't.
Edit: at the time of this edit, the news is already on the front page of the Guardian and the BBC. Completely absent from the NYTimes and Washington Post. Pay attention to what doesn't happen.
Your Edit reinforces my point: news is a product. If a publisher calls attention to or does not call attention to an issue, that means it wasn’t in the interests of the publisher. They’re market participants, not public servants.
Because belonging to the "five eyes" means they get to hear the official and private conversations of Trump for free?
And since the answer is "no, of course not" your argument is completely irrelevant.
Germany has much less to lose.
(Apart from the fact that you're obviously trying to change what you said here, as you wrote "the UK has no need to spy".)
Honestly? Probably not. Obviously they get a lot from the US, but given past outcomes what are the chances they lose that support no matter what they get caught doing? A huge proportion of Americans have an unflinching fondness for Israel. For some evangelicals, support for Israel is even seen as a religious imperative.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-usa-spying-idUSKC...