How will Donald Trump’s intervention affect the general election?

The comments from ‘Donald from Washington’ will have caused headaches in Johnson’s election team, writes Ashley Cowburn

Trump and Johnson have spoken admirably of each other (Getty)

When Barack Obama intervened in the EU referendum, claiming the UK would be at the “back of the queue” in any trade deal with America, he faced the wrath of Brexiteers who were incandescent with his comments.

Nigel Farage, then the leader of Ukip, accused the US president of behaving “disgracefully”, and even went as far as to praise the Russian president Vladimir Putin for maintaining his “silence throughout the whole campaign”.

Fast forward three years, and Farage, now the leader of the Brexit Party, has used his radio show to actively encourage transatlantic interventions in domestic UK politics from the new resident of the White House.