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| Theresa May: Trump told me to sue the EU | Theresa May: Trump told me to sue the EU |
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| Donald Trump told Theresa May she should sue the EU rather than negotiate, she has told the BBC. | |
| The US president said on Friday at a joint press conference that he had given her a suggestion but she had found it too "brutal". | The US president said on Friday at a joint press conference that he had given her a suggestion but she had found it too "brutal". |
| Asked by the BBC's Andrew Marr what it was he had said, she replied: "He told me I should sue the EU - not go into negotiations." | Asked by the BBC's Andrew Marr what it was he had said, she replied: "He told me I should sue the EU - not go into negotiations." |
| She defended her blueprint for Brexit and urged her critics to back it. | |
| She said it would allow the UK to strike trade deals with other nations, end free movement of people and the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. | |
| A White Paper published on Thursday fleshed out details of her plan, which advocates close links with the EU on trade in goods, but not services. | |
| Before the paper was published, Brexit Secretary David Davis and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson resigned, saying it would not deliver the Brexit people voted for in the 2016 EU referendum. | |
| Talking about the president's advice on how to handle the EU, Mrs May said: "Interestingly, what the president also said at that press conference was 'don't walk away'. | |
| "Don't walk away from those negotiations because then you'll be stuck. So I want us to be able to sit down to negotiate the best deal for Britain." | |
| Mrs May urged people to "keep their eye on the prize" of Brexit - and said her plan was the only workable way to deliver it. | |
| Her message comes ahead of crucial Commons votes on trade and customs policy in the coming week. | |
| Leading Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg called the White Paper a "bad deal for Britain". He says it would lead to the UK having to follow EU rules with no say in how they are made. | |
| Donald Trump told the Sun newspaper Mrs May's proposals would "probably kill" a trade deal with his country. | |
| Hours later, however, he said a US-UK trade deal would "absolutely be possible". |