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The Trump card: We should welcome Donald Trump’s visit – and treat him as a friend

1 June 2019

9:00 AM

1 June 2019

9:00 AM

The day after Britain voted to leave the European Union, Donald Trump arrived by helicopter at Turnberry, his golf course in Scotland. The financial markets were in crisis and David Cameron had resigned in a panic. The Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, said that Britain had ‘collapsed: politically, monetarily, constitutionally and economically’.

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