PM starting to act like a Trumpette

President Trump claimed he’d put “America first”, building a wall with Mexico, pulling out of NATO and not threatening military force against other countries.

Since he was elected, he’s gone quiet on Mexico, backed NATO and launched missiles on Syria.

He’s breaking more election promises than the Tories.

Theresa May seems to be doing a Trump too. She quietly campaigned for Remain but loudly pushed for a brutal Brexit to become PM.

She said five times she would not hold a snap election but now runs to the ballot box. This isn’t “strong and stable leadership” – it’s weak government influenced

Bill

Gates says he didn’t let his kids have phones until they were 14. But my grandkids regularly use their mum’s to watch movies... and check up on her. We looked after them while their parents popped out for a drink. But Ava kept calling them to say: “How long will you be? 30 mins? Okay, you can have

an hour!”

by newspaper headlines and snake-oil pollsters.

We now hear Trump’s claim he had an aircraft carrier heading to North Korea was fake news – it was sailing south at the time.

This development of North Korea’s nuclear ambition has been a constant problem.

In one of my many visits to China as Deputy Prime Minister I spoke with the Chinese State Councillor Tang, who said North Korea would scale back its nuclear project if they had faceto-face meetings with the US.

Trump prefers war, war not jaw, jaw – typical of bullies.

We constantly seem to do the Americans’ bidding, from turning on NATO allies to putting British troops in East Europe to ratchet up a cold war with Russia.

Britain should use its special relationship with the US to force Trump to work with the Chinese and meet the North Koreans. And stop being a Trump lap dog.