Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says Britain’s ‘special relationship’ with the USA will become ‘spectacular’ under President Trump
BoJo was the first overseas politician to get a call from Vice President-elect Mike Pence, and was optimistic there would be great opportunities for Britain
BORIS JOHNSON claims Brexit Britain’s relations with the US will go from special “to spectacular” under brash billionaire President Donald Trump.
The Foreign Secretary was the first overseas politician to be rung by Vice President Mike Pence – and the aides said the two spoke of the “huge opportunities” in a “very warm” conversation.
The call late on Thursday night lasted for ten minutes, with the pair “stressing they are looking forward to UK and US relations building from a strong base”.
“We need to snap out of the general doom and gloom about the result of this election”, the Foreign Secretary said.
A Foreign Office source added: “The rest of Europe has been churlish and sniffy about Trump’s victory. We haven’t – that puts us in a much better place.”
The comments came as Sterling raced to a five week high on the prospect Britain will be one of the biggest beneficiaries of a Trump administration.
The Pound hit $1.26, climbing back to levels last seen before Theresa May revealed she planned to invoke Article 50 – and trigger Britain’s EU divorce – by the end of May.
Downing Street hopes the PM will be able to meet Donald Trump in Washington early next year.
But it was left red-faced yesterday after the emergence of explosive tweets by the PM’s two closest confidantes – where they mocked Donald Trump and branded him a “chump”.
Joint No.10 chiefs of staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill both issued insults about the Republican candidate on the social media website before taking their Downing Street posts in the summer.
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In May, the powerful Mr Timothy urged Tories not to “reach out” to Mr Trump. In June, he shared a message from Hillary Clinton where the Democrat asked people to imagine how the billionaire would act in the Situation Room “making life or death decisions on our behalf”.
Mrs Hill described Mr Trump as a “chump” in a post last December.
She was replying to a message from Scottish Conservatives boss Ruth Davidson that described Mr Trump as “a clay-brained guts, knotty-pated fool, whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch (a large blob of fat)”.
Mr Johnson previously accused Mr Trump of “stupefying ignorance that makes him frankly unfit to hold the office of president”.
He was referring to the Republican’s call last year to ban Muslims from entering the US.
Downing Street last night said Mrs May and her team were “focused on building and expanding the UK’s relationships around the world”.
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