Trump: soft Brexit will 'kill' UK's chances of US trade deal

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. May needs to persuade the far right in her party she can make a new trade deal with the US

Trump has just kneecapped her. She won't survive long enough as PM to get another president to deal with, and this could bring down her government.

For instance, the BBC's analysis:

Donald Trump gives May's Brexit plan both barrels

Her approach to Brexit has been slowly, gently, incrementally, trying to carry the Ming vase across one side of the room to another on a slippery floor.

To talk about being pragmatic, to smooth over the contradictions, to do whatever it takes to get to the other side, without smashing that vase (her party and the country) to bits.

In walks President Trump, to call out one of the claims that Number 10 has been making of late - in essence, smashing the vase to bits.
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That matters because the government has been clinging to the idea of trade deals with countries outside the EU as one of the benefits of Brexit, and claiming that the choice in the Chequers deal to stay close to the EU doesn't exclude those opportunities.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44816127