TEHRAN, June 08 - British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has praised Donald Trump’s ham-fisted approach to deal-making, suggesting the UK would be better off if the US leader took over the Brexit talks.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has praised Donald Trump’s ham-fisted approach to deal-making, suggesting the UK would be better off if the US leader took over the Brexit talks. “There is method in his madness,” he said.
Ardent Brexiteer Johnson made his remarks during a closed-doors Conservative dinner party on Wednesday evening. A recording of his speech, released by BuzzFeed News, shows the UK top diplomat being his usual flamboyant self as he confessed of his growing admiration for the US leader.
Trump’s toughness in negotiating better terms for his country at all costs is what the UK might borrow from the author of the “Art of the Deal,” Johnson suggested. Even if his no-nonsense approach might seem like pure craziness at first, it might work out in the end, he said.
“Imagine Trump doing Brexit. He’d go in bloody hard… There’d be all sorts of breakdowns, all sorts of chaos. Everyone would think he’d gone mad. But actually, you might get somewhere. It’s a very, very good thought,” Johnson said, half-jokingly suggesting to outsource the matter to Trump.
“Trump to negotiate Brexit would be a fantastic idea,” he said, causing the audience to erupt in laughter.
While not everyone might have taken the British foreign secretary’s words at face value, he then doubled down, saying that he is “increasingly admiring of Donald Trump.”
“I have become more and more convinced that there is method in his madness.”
The UK risks remaining “locked in orbit around the EU, in the customs union and to a large extent still in the single market,” Johnson said, adding that he believes British PM Theresa May “is going to go into a phase where we are much more combative with Brussels.”
Noting that a potential showdown with the EU might lead to a “meltdown,” he assured the crowd that “it’s going to be all right in the end.”
“OK? I don’t want anybody to panic during the meltdown. No panic. Pro bono publico, no bloody panic.”
Source: RT
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