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The UK should walk away from the EU without a deal if it cannot secure the terms it wants, Donald Trump has said. Nigel Farage should be involved in the government's Brexit negotiations and the UK should be prepared to leave the EU with no deal, Donald Trump has said.
The US president was speaking to the Sunday Times ahead of his arrival in the UK on Monday for a state visit. In a Sunday Times interview, the US president was critical of government's Brexit negotiations, saying it left the EU "with all the cards."
Mr Trump also said the UK should include Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage in talks with the EU, describing him as "a very smart person". The interview comes before his state visit to the UK begins on Monday.
Mr Trump's comments came after he said Boris Johnson would be an "excellent" Conservative Party leader. On Saturday Mr Trump also said Boris Johnson would be an "excellent" Conservative Party leader.
Candidates in the Tory leadership contest to replace Prime Minister Theresa May have begun setting out their Brexit strategies. Breaking with diplomatic convention, Mr Trump said the leader of the Brexit Party "has a lot to offer" in negotiations with the EU, and said the Conservative government should "bring him in".
Among them, Sajid Javid, Esther McVey and Dominic Raab have said the UK should leave the EU on the current planned departure date of 31 October with or without an agreement. "Think how well they would do if they did," he added.
Rory Stewart does not back a no-deal Brexit and Matt Hancock says politicians must be honest about the trade-offs involved in getting a deal approved by MPs. He also said that if the UK should walk away if the UK does not get what it wants from EU negotiations.
Jeremy Hunt has warned against taking a hard line with Brussels, saying it would provoke a similar response. "If you don't get the deal you want, if you don't get a fair deal, then you walk away."
The US president told the Sunday Times: "If you don't get the deal you want, if you don't get a fair deal, then you walk away." Meanwhile, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has marked Mr Trump's visit by calling him "one of the most egregious examples of a growing global threat".
He suggested the UK should not pay the £39bn ($49bn) Brexit "divorce" bill laid out in the current withdrawal agreement. In an article for the Observer, Mr Khan said: "The far right is on the rise around the world, threatening our hard-won rights and freedoms and the values that have defined our liberal, democratic societies for more than 70 years."
"If I were them I wouldn't pay $50bn - it's a big number," he said. In April, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said he was boycotting Mr Trump's state banquet at Buckingham Palace, in protest at the president's "racist and misogynistic rhetoric".
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The US president also reiterated his praise for Boris Johnson - who is willing to leave the EU with no deal.
Mr Johnson is one of the candidates in Tory leadership contest to replace Prime Minister Theresa May.
Sajid Javid, Esther McVey and Dominic Raab have said the UK should leave the EU on the current planned departure date of 31 October with or without an agreement.
But Rory Stewart does not back a no-deal Brexit - and Matt Hancock says politicians must be honest about the trade-offs involved in getting a deal approved by MPs.
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said trying to push through a no-deal Brexit would be committing "political suicide", although he agreed the option had to remain on the negotiating table.
To compensate for lost trade with the EU, Mr Trump vowed to "go all out" to secure a free trade deal between the UK and US within months of Britain leaving the bloc.To compensate for lost trade with the EU, Mr Trump vowed to "go all out" to secure a free trade deal between the UK and US within months of Britain leaving the bloc.
The first day of Mr Trump's state visit to the UK is set to include a private lunch with the Queen, tea with the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, and a state banquet at Buckingham Palace. The first day of Mr Trump's state visit to the UK will include a private lunch with the Queen, tea with the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, and the state banquet at Buckingham Palace.