Corbyn: America is not the most important relationship for Britain
JEREMY CORBYN has distanced himself from the so-called “special relationship”, saying America is not Britain’s most important relationship with another country.
The Labour leader said the UK had to maintain many important relationships around the world, as he hit out at “endless offensive remarks” by US President Donald Trump about women, minorities and different faiths.
His comments came as shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry called Mr Trump “a danger” and “a racist”.
However, Tory Party chairman Brandon Lewis said it was right an invitation for a state visit had been extended to President Trump.
Mr Corbyn, appearing on ITV’s Peston On Sunday, was asked if Britain’s relationship with the US was the most important relationship it has with another country.
The Labour leader replied: “No. I think there are many important relationships.
“The US one is obviously culturally and economically significant and important. May visited the White House, briefly holding hands with him, and the US President pledged his “lasting support to this most special relationship”.
But relations quickly became more strained, with Mrs May denouncing Mr Trump’s travel restrictions on Muslims as “divisive and wrong”.
She later rebuked Mr Trump after intelligence shared with the US in the wake of the Manchester terror attack was leaked to American media and the two leaders fell out publicly over his retweeting of anti-Muslim videos posted online by the deputy leader of the far-right Britain First group, Jayda Fransen.
Last week President Trump said he was cancelling a proposed visit to open the new US embassy in London, saying the new