Donald Trump said he is already working
on a ‘very substantial’ post-Brexit trade deal with Boris Johnson only days
after he became Prime Minister.
The two world leaders
spoke on Friday evening to outline plans for a deal between the UK and US which
is said to include ‘unparalleled’ trade opportunities.
Mr Trump claimed any
deal could signal a ‘three to four or five times’ increase in trade between the
two countries following Britain’s scheduled departure from the European Union.
Speaking to reporters
at the White House, the US President said: ‘We’re working already on a trade
agreement. And I think it’ll be a very substantial trade agreement.
‘You know we can do
with the UK, we can do three to four times, we were actually impeded by their
relationship with the European Union. We were very much impeded on trade.’
Mr Trump continued: ‘We don’t do the kind of trade we could do
with what some people say is Great Britain.
‘And some people, remember a word you don’t hear too much is the
word England, which is a piece of it. ‘But with the UK we could do much, much
more trade and we expect to do that.’
Downing Street confirmed the two leaders had ‘expressed their
commitment to delivering an ambitious free trade agreement’.
A spokesman added: ‘They agreed that Brexit offers an unparalleled
opportunity to strengthen the economic partnership between the UK and United
States.’
The US President said the UK had ‘needed’ Mr Johnson for quite
some time, adding: ‘He has what it takes.’
‘I think we can have a great relationship and Boris is going to be
a great prime minister.
I predict he will be a great prime minister.’ Mr Trump has
previously praised the new Prime Minister even before his victory in the Tory leadership
contest, where he won 66% of the Conservative Party membership’s votes.
Speaking to a crowd of young US conservatives on Tuesday, he said:
‘We have a really good man who is going to be the prime minister of the UK now:
Boris Johnson. ‘Good man.
He’s tough and he’s smart. They’re saying ‘Britain Trump’. They
call him Britain Trump and it’s people saying that’s a good thing.
‘They like me over there. That’s what they wanted. That’s what
they need.’
Source: Metro.co.uk
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