In an interview with Brexit party leader Nigel Farage, US President Donald Trump made it clear who he would vote for in the upcoming new elections in December. Current British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a "fantastic man," Trump said.
However, he urgently warned opposition leader and Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn. "Corbyn would be so bad for your country," he said, "he is so bad he would lead you in such a wrong direction."
"Donald Trump tries to interfere"
Johnson, Trump said, was just the type for those times. And he knew that Johnson and Farage could do "great things." If they did, they would be a force that could not be stopped.
Corbyn criticized Trump for it in a tweet. "Donald Trump is trying to interfere in the UK elections for his friend Boris Johnson to win," he wrote.
Trump criticized, however, the Brexit deal by Johnson. Johnson is very much looking to the United States for a trade deal, Trump said in an interview with Farage. "We want to trade with Britain and they want to trade with us," said the US president. But "certain aspects of the deal" would make that impossible. "You can not do it." Johnson's agreement makes the conclusion of a trade agreement between the US and Great Britain impossible.
Johnson's response to this early Friday morning was that the deal would allow Britain to "complete its own free trade agreements around the world," Johnson spokesman said. This would be "beneficial to any part of the United Kingdom".
Fierce fighting for the election campaign
In the United Kingdom, new elections are scheduled for 12 December and the Brexit deadline has been extended until 31 January next year. At the start of the election campaign, Johnson and Corbyn have fiercely fought in the lower house. Johnson accused Corbyn of jeopardizing the country's economic power with its plans for tax increases and nationalization.
Opposition leader Corbyn of the Labor Party, on the other hand, accused Johnson of heading to sell off the country with a planned trade deal with the US. (Read here an overview of the positions of the different parties).