Air Force One touched down at Stansted Airport last night for the annual Nato summit, held just over a week before the British public go to the polls. So far, Donald Trump has avoided becoming embroiled in the campaign. He told reporters: ‘I’ll stay out of the election’.
Spectator USA editor Freddy Gray took to the airwaves this morning to discuss the impact of a potential Trump intervention alongside BBC Radio 5 Live‘s Emma Barnett and Paul Harrison, the former Number 10 press secretary to Theresa May. During the discussion, Harrison told BBC Radio 5 Live about his experience of working with Trump. He described what happened from Number 10’s perspective when the US president gave an interview to the Sun newspaper where he criticised Theresa May’s Brexit deal:
The guy’s a force of nature, so part of it [dealing with Trump] is a contained nervousness about not knowing precisely what will happen… At that stage, he’d done an interview with the Sun that essentially said the Brexit plan that we were working to probably wasn’t what people voted for and would “destroy” – I think his words – US trade.
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