Trump UK visit: Farage meets president as Tory leader hopefuls reject Trump’s demand NHS is opened to US firms
'Comprehensive' trade deal promised as US leader suggests American involvement in healthcare a possibility
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump has insisted the NHS would be “on the table” in any post-Brexit trade talks. “When you’re dealing with trade everything is on the table. So NHS or anything else, a lot more than that,” the US president said at a press conference with Theresa May.
He earlier promised, not for the first time, a “very substantial” post-Brexit trade deal with the UK as he met Ms May on the second day of his state visit, following a lavish royal banquet at Buckingham Palace. The leaders also discussed the role of Huawei in the UK’s 5G network.
Meanwhile, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said he had a “good meeting” with the president at the US ambassador’s residence and that Mr Trump “really believes in Brexit”.
Mr Farage was photographed being driven into Winfield House on Tuesday afternoon.
He later tweeted: “Good meeting with President Trump - he really believes in Brexit and is loving his trip to London.”
Mr Farage has campaigned for years to take Britain out of the European Union and is one of Trump’s most prominent British supporters. The president has called him a friend.
Mr Farage’s newly founded Brexit Party was the big winner in last month’s European Parliament elections in Britain, scooping up support from voters angry that the UK has not left the EU.
He has criticised the prime minister's divorce deal with the bloc and said Britain should leave the EU without an agreement.
Mr Trump praised Ms May’s handling of Brexit on Tuesday, saying she had gotten a good deal.
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BREAKING NEWS
Pro and anti-Trump protesters have clashed during a march from Trafalgar Square to Parliament in central London, writes Tom Batchelor.
A small group of supporters of the US president was surrounded by demonstrators in Whitehall.
Police intervened and pulled the pro-Trump group into a nearby pub for their own safety as cheers of “Nazi scum off our streets” rang out.
Addressing the crowd of protesters at Whitehall, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said of President Trump: “This is a man who is not worthy of our respect. He is not worthy of the office of president and we say go home.
“We stand in solidarity with all of those that recognise that our future is green or it is not at all.”
Ms Lucas said Trump was “no friend of Britain” but that he was “best friends” with Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson, prompting boos from the crowd.
She added: “We know that Britain is better than the Britain that has been pimping out the royal family for photo opportunities for Trump.”
Scotland Yard said 3,182 officers had been deployed to police the second day of Mr Trump's state visit today.
In a sea of Trump-a-like politicians, Sadiq Khan is beginning to look like a prime minister in waiting, writes Matthew Norman.
The London mayor is the only one to have the guts to stand up to the US president - and to emerge untarnished from the Brexit mess.
Tensions have continued to flare between rival groups of protesters, reports Tom Batchelor from Whitehall.
Some demonstrators chanted "police protect the fascists" as officers, some on horseback, tried to separate pro and anti-Trump protesters.
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