Trump Spurs On Brexit in London Visit, Diving Into U.K. Politics
- President says U.K. must throw off ‘shackles’ of EU membership
- White House says Trump supports Brexit maintaining ‘stability’
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Donald Trump waded into the U.K.’s fraught politics on the first day of a state visit, urging his hosts to proceed with Brexit and dangling the promise of a U.S. trade deal he said would swiftly follow.
With the country preparing for the appointment of a new prime minister, Trump called on the British to throw off the “shackles” of European Union membership in a tweet before a banquet hosted by Queen Elizabeth II.