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Donald Trump becomes No 10’s nightmare guest

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.

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.

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