Barack Obama’s dire warnings about Brexit were unravelling last night as he admitted the US would do a trade deal with the UK – and our defence and intelligence special relationship would be unchanged.
Downing Street and the Remain campaign were delighted on Friday night when the US president said the UK would be at the ‘back of the queue’ if it voted to quit the Brussels club.
His remarks went much further than expected – and triggered claims, later denied, that he had been reading from a No. 10 script. But the Out campaign yesterday seized on an apparent clarification from Mr Obama, who said that he had simply meant an independent Britain would not be able to do a trade deal faster than the EU.
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