Donald Trump has broken into the British election
campaign advising Premier Boris Johnson to collaborate with the leader of the
Brexit Party, Nigel Farage, and to form "an unstoppable force". The
US president has taken advantage of his interview with Farage himself on the
LBC station to lash out against Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn, claiming it would
be "very bad for the country".
Hours after launching his campaign for the December 12
elections, Corbyn replied accusing Trump of "interfering in British
politics favoring his friend Boris Jonhso". The US president confirmed
that he will visit London to attend the NATO summit on December 3, nine days
before the election date.
In his radio interview, Trump acknowledged having
reservations about the agreement for Brexit reached by Boris Johnson with
Brussels, although he expressed hope in a future trade agreement with the
United Kingdom "to multiply the volume of the exchange we now have".
The US president, who raised the alarms on his last visit to the United Kingdom
alleging that the Public Health System (NHS) would enter into a future
negotiation between the two countries, said however that he does not intend to
interfere in British health.
"I don't know how this whole mess of the health
system started", Trump said. "It's ridiculous. I think it was Corbyn
who put it there. The truth is that we mentioned the issue and I never heard of
it until I visited the Queen" (it was really the American ambassador,
Woody Johnson, who came to say that in a hypothetical trade agreement between
London and Washignton, the NHS would be on the table).
Trump praised Boris Jonhson as "a fantastic
man" and as "the right guy for these times". "Boris has
great respect for you", Farage said personally in an open microphone. “I
have no idea about the psychology of two brilliant people, but frankly I think
you could both work together, that you would make a good team".
Donald Trump failed in his day to try to "name"
Farage as British ambassador to the United States. During his state visit last
June, in the last thunderstorm of Theresa May's term, Trump met with Farage
personally, but Johnson preferred to keep the distance and have only a
telephone conversation with the US president.
"Donald Trump is not qualified to be president and
Boris Johnson is not fit for prime minister", said Foreign Spokesman of
the Liberal-Democratic Party Chuka Umunna. "You can say a lot about a
person based on their companies. And the truth is that Trump is a thug, a
misogynist and a racist".
SOURCE: El Mundo
