The US president’s foul tweet aims a wrecking ball at Theresa May. It will do untold damage to the ‘special relationship’Winston Churchill once wrote that the balances of world history can sometimes turn on what he called “small agate points”. Churchill had in mind the accidental shooting of the American civil war general Stonewall Jackson by his own men in 1863, without which, he speculated, the Confederate armies might have captured Washington DC, and the United States might have split into two. But he could have been talking of Donald Trump’s latest tweets and their implications for British foreign policy after Brexit. Related: Special relationship? Theresa May discovers she has no friend in Donald Trump | Julian Borger Continue reading…
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