May set to snub Trump at G20 summit
ARGENTINE, (DAILY MIRROR), 30 NOVEMBER 2018 - Theresa May will try to get world leaders on board with her Brexit deal today - but she will snub a meeting with Donald Trump.
The Prime Minister will push a message of free trade as she attends a potentially fraught meeting of the powerful G20 states in Argentina.
But while Mrs May is due to hold bilateral talks with around half-a-dozen other leaders during the two-day gathering, aides have made clear she will not be seeking a one-on-one meeting with the US president.
The apparent cold shoulder comes after Mr Trump threatened to deepen the premier’s Brexit crisis by jibing that she had struck a ‘great deal for the EU’.
He also warned the settlement with Brussels could make it impossible to reach a deep Transatlantic trade pact.
Mrs May’s attendance at the summit - the first time a British PM has gone to the Argentinian capital since the Falklands War - could offer some respite from the domestic strife she faces.
But the event will be far from trouble free. She faces a controversial encounter with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the wake the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Confirming that she intends to speak with the Crown Prince during the summit, Mrs May said: ‘The message I give will be very clear. It is the message we have consistently given on this issue of Jamal Khashoggi and the issue of Yemen.