Tag: Campaigning in the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016

Image WASHINGTON — The day after Britain voted to exit the European Union in 2016, Donald J. Trump landed in Scotland and promptly declared the referendum result “a great thing.” More than two years later, President Trump is back in Britain, and now he wants to speed it along. With its push to restrict immigration and its appeal to “take our country back,” the Brexit campaign was always a close political relative of the Trump movement in the United States. It is an ambition that Mr. Trump has often appeared to support, casting the European Union as an economic competitor that has stymied American farmers with its limits on genetically modified produce, hormone-treated beef and chlorine-washed chicken. That put him at odds with Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain, who is pushing a business-friendly approach that would preserve many economic ties to the bloc. One Conservative Party lawmaker, Bill Cash, told The Daily Mail newspaper that Mr. Bolton “gave a positive view of what he believed the president thought about Brexit.” Image The Brexit vote was unique to Britain’s strained relationship with other European countries. “The populist revolt in Europe is always six months to a year ahead of us,” Mr. Bannon said Friday in an interview from London. When asked about the vote, however, he made clear that he saw it as similar to what was stoking his campaign in the United States. “People want to take their country back,” he said. Mr. Bannon was on hand in London this week, meeting with Mr. Farage and giving interviews that praised Mr. Trump’s confrontational approach. No,” Mr. Bannon said.