PRESIDENT’S RANT AT OPEC

DONALD Trump took to Twitter yesterday to criticise the Opec oil cartel – telling it to ‘get prices down now’.

With Brent crude at nearly $80 a barrel, the US president said: ‘We protect the countries of the Middle East, they would not be safe for very long without us, and yet they continue to push for higher and higher oil prices! We will remember. The Opec monopoly must get prices down now!’

Opec members meet allies from outside the cartel, including Russia, on Sunday to discuss output levels.