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Theresa May to meet Trump

26 January 2017

By Lauren E. White

Prime Minister Theresa May is to travel to Philadelphia later to meet with Republican Party officials before meeting with the Republican President himself tomorrow.

Mrs May is expected to tell officials that after the Brexit vote – something that Mr Trump hailed as a “great victory” – Britain is a “sovereign, global” country with hopes of getting closer to its “old friends”, the US.

Following President Obama’s warning that Britain will be at the “back of the queue” in terms of trade with America if they left the EU, Mrs May is expected to cosy up to the controversial leader. However, when speaking at the weekend, the Prime Minister said that she ” absolutely won’t be afraid” to voice her opinion to Mr Trump on anything she finds “unacceptable”.

The meeting will be Trump’s first with a foreign leader since his inauguration on Friday. He has spared no time in meeting with the PM in a relationship that many have likened to that of Reagan and Thatcher.

Either way, this certainly promises to be interesting as Theresa May hasn’t really got much leeway when it comes to trading with the US. If she plans to pull the UK out of the single market, we’re going to need all we can get. And, as Trump said, it may well be “America first”.

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