Trump hails May after ‘fake’ report
NICOLA Sturgeon will lead thousands of marchers at Scotland’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) pride event.
The First Minister is not expected to meet US President Donald Trump on his visit to Scotland this weekend, and will instead lead the Pride Glasgow march through the city today.
Ms Sturgeon will become the first serving prime minister or first minister in the UK to march at a pride event. BONNIE Langford will return to the stage after bowing out of her EastEnders role.
The 53-year-old, who plays Carmel Kazemi, will join the musical 42nd Street at London’s Theatre Royal in September, straight after leaving the soap.
Langford, who made her West End debut in Gone With The Wind on Drury Lane at the age of seven, tweeted of her new role as Dorothy Brock: “Thrilled to finally share the news. From the square to the sidewalk.” DONALD TRUMP has heaped praise on “incredible” Theresa May and hailed UK-US relations as the “highest level of special” hours after incendiary comments criticising her premiership.
After intensive talks at Chequers in the wake of an interview in which he said the Prime Minister’s Brexit plans would kill off a trade deal with America, the US President told Mrs May “whatever you do is OK with me” but urged her to “make sure we can trade together”.
Protesters gathered in central London to denounce the visit for stoking “division along fault lines of fear and hatred”.
Demonstrators gathered on Parliament Square to voice their disapproval of Mr Trump’s visit alongside a six-metre inflatable depicting the president wearing a nappy and holding a mobile phone.
But well away from the noisy demonstrations, Mr Trump and Mrs May took questions from reporters.
The president said Mrs May “can’t walk away” from exit talks with the European Union, though suggested she could use other methods to secure a good deal.
Speaking in the grounds of the PM’s official country residence, Mr Trump said he had given her a suggestion about how to come out on top in the talks but “she found it maybe too brutal”.
But he praised Mrs May as a “very tough negotiator” and described her as an “incredible woman” who is “doing a fantastic job”.
The US President left Mrs May badly wounded when he criticised her negotiating style, lavished praise on Boris Johnson and attacked her Brexit plan in an interview with The Sun.
He apologised to the PM for the story and said the newspaper left out the good things he had said about her, adding “it’s called fake news”.
Mr Trump said: “She’s a very smart, very tough, very capable person and I would much rather have her as my friend than my enemy, that I can tell you.”