'I don't see it being on the table…That’s not trade.” US President Trump says after backlash on comments that UK’s health service should be included in post-Brexit trade talks
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May and US President Donald Trump attend a joint news conference at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, in London, Britain on June 4, 2019.
The president's unexpected compliments for May come just days before she was set to resign the leadership of her party after failing to secure a Brexit deal."I have greatly enjoyed working with you. You are a tremendous professional and a person who loves her country very much," Trump told May at a news conference near the prime minister's Downing Street office.
"We are going to get it done," he said as he and May hosted a meeting of business leaders on the second day of the president's state visit.He said he didn't know May's timings but that she should stick around."We are your largest partner... I think there's a great opportunity to greatly enlarge that, especially now," he said.
Later, however, he said that while nothing would be off the table in talks, he did not see the NHS as falling under the realm of trade.
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