Washington<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Theresa May, who is barely holding on to power at home, found a frosty reception on her latest mission to Brussels as she struggles to sell Brexit on her terms.Nor is she finding much support from US President Donald Trump, who has openly questioned her Brexit deal, instead favoring a full break.<\/p>\n
Right-wing critics fear the current deal could leave Britain indefinitely in the EU customs union so as to prevent restoration of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n
Trump, speaking to reporters soon after May announced her Brexit package, dismissed it as \u201ca great deal for the EU.\u201d He suggested that the agreement could hold back a trade deal between the United States and Britain which conservatives in both countries have dangled as an incentive if Britain leaves the European Union.<\/p>\n
In a recent Fox News interview, Pompeo promised to pursue the vaunted US-Britain \u201cspecial relationship\u201d in the increasingly likely scenario of a \u201chard Brexit\u201d without a negotiated deal.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s enthusiasm for Brexit stands in marked contrast to the views of his predecessor Barack Obama, who had warned that Britain would be at the \u201cback of the queue\u201d for a US trade deal if it left the European Union.<\/p>\n
In line with the thinking of much of the foreign policy establishment in both countries, Obama said that a Britain integrated within a forward-looking European Union was better for all sides economically and politically.<\/p>\n
For Trump, Britain\u2019s 2016 referendum to leave the European Union foreshadowed his own election, with few experts predicting the groundswell of support outside major cities.<\/p>\n
Nile Gardiner, an aide to former prime minister Margaret Thatcher now at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative US think tank, said Brexit was a natural philosophical fit for Trump. The American president has championed an \u201cAmerica First\u201d policy suspicious of multinational institutions.<\/p>\n
\u201cBritain has been very heavily EU-focused for the last few decades,\u201d Gardiner said. \u201cI would envisage a British foreign policy that is much more closely aligned with the United States.\u201d He said, for example, that a successor to May supportive of hard Brexit could part ways with the European Union on championing a denuclearisation deal with Iran.<\/p>\n
Trump has enjoyed no support among Western leaders after exiting the multiparty deal negotiated by Obama and has reimposed punishing sanctions on Iran.<\/p>\n
A post-Brexit Britain would also be certain to steer clear of a common European defence separate from NATO, as proposed by French President Emmanuel Macron with the support of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Gardiner said.<\/p>\n
Kelly Magsamen, a vice president at the left-leaning Center for American Progress, called Trump\u2019s impact on Brexit \u201cvery disruptive.\u201d She said that US policy toward such a close ally should be, fundamentally, to \u201cdo no harm.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur objective at this point should be to contain whatever economic damage there may be from Brexit for both us and our allies. But also our objective should not be to make things worse for Theresa May or Angela Merkel,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She said she doubted that Britain\u2019s core international policies would change much after Brexit but feared that a newly preoccupied Britain might be less active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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