'Where are your manners Trump?' outraged British politicians ask
British politicians expressed outrage on Friday at US President Donald Trump's attack on the government's Brexit strategy, although one leading euro-skeptic said it was "perfectly reasonable".
"Where are your manners, Mr President?" tweeted Universities Minister Sam Gyimah.Other MPs in Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative party rounded on the President for being "determined to insult" her as she hosted him on a trip to Britain.The opposition Labor party called him "extraordinarily rude".
Downing Street stayed silent, but junior foreign minister Alan Duncan brushed off the row, saying Mr Trump was a "controversialist, that's his style". In an interview in The Sun tabloid published on Friday, Mr Trump said Mrs May's plans to keep close economic ties with the European Union after Brexit would "kill" its hopes of a US trade deal.
He also warned about migration into European cities, including London, criticizing Mayor Sadiq Khan over recent terror attacks and knife crime. He also suggested Mr Boris Johnson, who quit as foreign secretary this week in protest at Mrs May's Brexit proposal, would make a good prime minister.
"@realDonaldTrump determined to insult our PM," said Ms Sarah Woollaston, a Conservative MP and chairman of Parliament's health committee. She attacked his "divisive, dog-whistle rhetoric" on migration, adding: "If signing up to the #Trump world view is the price of a deal, it's not worth paying."
While she noted Mrs May would probably keep silent, she said: "Many will be cheering if she tells @realDonaldTrump where he can stick his dog whistle". Ms Emily Thornberry called Mrs May's Brexit plan a "delusion", said Mr Trump had been "extraordinarily rude".
