Trump’s Brexit bomb is a brutal reminder that May’s work has barely started | Gaby Hinsliff

Even if the PM’s deal gets through parliament, she faces negotiations with countries whose power far outweighs ours

There is no political crisis so bad that Donald Trump can’t somehow manage to make it worse.

And so it has come to pass with Brexit. Just as Theresa May is straining to persuade the nation that her compromise deal isn’t as bad as it sounds, our erstwhile ally pops up to pour a bucket of cold water all over it. Britain “may not be able to trade with” America in future, the president declared, although he presumably means it may not be free to strike a trade deal, rather than that all goods will stop at the border.

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