Tag: Ryan Chilcote

President Trump lobbed a volley of verbal grenades at British Prime Minister Theresa May in a tabloid interview before he arrived in the UK, saying May had botched Brexit and praising the former foreign secretary as a potential prime minister. News of the Russia indictments came as President Trump was in Britain. In an interview conducted with The Sun tabloid before he arrived, the president said may botched Britain’s leaving the European Union. After a meeting and lunch with May, both leaders took questions. I didn’t criticize the prime minister. You are changing a lot of things. While Theresa May may not have expected the president to support publicly her path that she’s chosen for taking the United Kingdom out of the European Union, the so-called soft Brexit, she definitely would have been looking for him to very publicly endorse the idea that, once the U.K. leaves the European Union, its biggest trade partner, it can definitely have a very solid trade relationship and trade deal, free trade deal, with the United States. You know, he undermined the prime minister, you could say, but will he really change the political landscape when it comes to the almost existential question of how the U.K. exits the European Union. And I think the answer to that is, maybe not so much, because, after all, if you think about it, a lot of the people that support a real hard break, the U.K. making a hard break with the European Union, members of the Conservative Party in this country, well, they’re actually, politically speaking, a bit further for the left than, say, the Republicans in the United States. Yes, it will embolden the marginal powers in the U.K., the people that aren’t in the houses of Parliament in the government, the seat of power behind me here, but it’s not entirely clear that he is going to be able to bring down the prime minister with that interview that he gave before he arrived here, or that he’s really going to be able to change the course of how this country exits the European Union.