Oh dear. After some incendiary comments earlier in the week, Donald Trump has delivered a sucker punch towards Theresa May and her Brexit plan. As the Prime Minister pulled out all the stops for the US President with a black tie dinner at Blenheim Palace, the Sun published its front page – in which Trump declares that May has ‘ruined’ Brexit and the US/UK deal is off.
— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) July 12, 2018
The US president goes on to add insult to injury by saying May’s rival Boris Johnson would make a great Prime Minister. As for that deal, he says:
‘If they do a deal like that, we would be dealing with the European Union instead of dealing with the UK, so it will probably kill the deal.’
Trump’s bad manners have made Theresa May’s bad week even worse.
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