Reform hits back at Trump over Ireland reunification row
- Robert Jenrick has hit back at Donald Trump’s calls for a united Ireland and said the US President should have “butted out” of British politics.
- Reform UK’s treasury spokesman said Trump “shouldn’t have weighed into British politics” when he claimed Irish reunification was inevitable and it “may as well happen now”, during a visit to Dublin on Saturday.
- Mr Jenrick told Sky News’s Sunday Morning programme: “If you’re referring to what he said about Ireland he was completely wrong.
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- Robert Jenrick has hit back at Donald Trump’s calls for a united Ireland and said the US President should have “butted out” of British politics.
- Reform UK’s treasury spokesman said Trump “shouldn’t have weighed into British politics” when he claimed Irish reunification was inevitable and it “may as well happen now”, during a visit to Dublin on Saturday.
- Mr Jenrick told Sky News’s Sunday Morning programme: “If you’re referring to what he said about Ireland he was completely wrong.
Sources: The Independent