Friday Morning Briefing: Trump blasts UK prime minister's Brexit plan
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July 13, 2018
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“Where are your manners, Mr President?”asked Sam Gyimah, a junior minister in the British prime minister’s government after Trump directly criticized Theresa May’s Brexit strategy. The U.S. president said it had probably killed off hope of a U.S.-British trade deal and that May had failed to take his advice on how to negotiate with the European Union.
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