Trump teaches in Brexit

london - The British attitude to the Brexit negotiations is not right. Premier May must seek the confrontation. That said the American President Donald Trump in an interview that was broadcast on Sunday evening.

Trump finds it incomprehensible that May has opted for a two-year transitional phase. As a result, the 'fantastic' trade agreement promised by him between the United States and the United Kingdom is delayed by two years.

Trump also said that the European Union was 'very, very unfair' in the trade relationship with the US and threatened that 'that could turn out to be very detrimental to them'. He made his statements during an interview with Piers Morgan. This journalist belongs to Trump's extensive circle of acquaintances and excused the American president an apology for the distribution of videos by the British racist organization Britain First.

Trump was tagged by May at the end of last year to distribute the videos. An insulted Trump then gave an unofficial visit to London. During a cool conversation in the mundane Davos, Trump and May tried to boost their relationship this week. The unspoken criticism of Trump on May's Brexit policy does not help.

The American criticism of the British negotiating position follows a week in which the tension within the Conservative party increases. Minister of Finance Philip Hammond used a speech in the same Davos to make it clear that the relationship between the UK and the EU after Brexit should remain as 'intimate as possible'.

This was explained by many unadulterated Brexiteers as a plea to stay within the customs union as it currently exists. May, perhaps spurred on by her conversation with Trump, later made it clear that the British, after leaving the EU and the transitional tormented by Trump, bid farewell to the common market and the customs union, something Hammond then committed to.

That was not enough to close the ranks within the party. Former party chairman and lower house member Grant Shapps demands that May make it clear when she will step up as party leader.

According to him, 'a growing number of party members have submitted an official request in which their leadership is being questioned. If 50 of the more than 300 Conservative House members make such a request, an official vote will follow.