Who should Brexit Britain want to win the US presidential election? Donald Trump has been rhetorically pro-Brexit. He has broken decisively with US foreign policy orthodoxy, which has long assumed that more European integration is inherently a good thing. But his words of support have delivered little in terms of practical assistance for Brexit Britain, I say in the magazine this week, Trump might have decried Barack Obama’s ‘back of the queue’ comment but his own trade representative admitted recently that no US-UK trade deal will be ready before the presidential election in November.
Trump has been a difficult ally, alienating other democracies, undercutting America’s moral leadership in the world and generating considerable uncertainty. Boris Johnson – having tried and failed to reset relations with Russia as Foreign Secretary – wants to take a tough line with Moscow, one of his arguments for bringing DfID into the Foreign Office is to ensure that more money is spent countering Russian meddling in the Western Balkans.
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