The United Kingdom and the United States will “lead together again,” as Britain prepares to exist the European Union and Donald Trump becomes the American president, British Prime Minister Theresa May is set to say before meeting him.
During the annual congressional Republican Retreat in Philadelphia, May will make the remarks ahead of meeting the US new president, according to a Downing Street released on Wednesday.
The two countries will work to “renew the special relationship,” May will say, likening the support for Brexit and Trump in the two countries.
“The United Kingdom is by instinct and history a great, global nation that recognizes its responsibilities to the world,” the British premier will say. “And as we end our membership of the European Union – as the British people voted with determination and quiet resolve to do last year – we have the opportunity to reassert our belief in a confident, sovereign and Global Britain,…