Brexit doom-mongers step aside. After weeks of speculation, the relationship that exists between Britain and the US has just been upgraded from ‘special’ to ‘very special’. Speaking at a joint press conference, Theresa May and Donald Trump were at pains to prove they had not fallen out –as recent reports had suggested following Trump’s decision to cancel his trip to open the new US embassy in Vauxhall.
Heaping the treacle on thick, the US president dismissed such reports as ‘false rumours’ and praised the British Prime Minister:
‘We have great respect for everything you’re doing and we love your country, we think it’s truly great.’
So ‘great’ (and between them they said ‘great’ seven times in two minutes) is their relationship that the charm offensive may have proved too much for a Trump-sceptic British public. Trump claimed that he and May ‘are on the same wavelength in every respect’.
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