President Donald Trump couldn’t resist telling the British Prime Minister to get on with ending the UK’s migrant crisis, saying “it doesn’t matter which means you use” but that it’s easier to stop people coming than to remove them once they’ve arrived.
The final set-piece event of the two-night second full state visit to the United Kingdom for President Donald Trump passed at Chequers, the country residence of the British Prime Minister, with a joint press conference for the President and Sir Keir Starmer. The moment of maximum political danger for Starmer, Trump was studiously polite in his prepared remarks and largely refused to rise to the bait when questions from attendant press came.
While this was likely out of respect to the host, President Trump was evidently unable to contain himself at several key moments and spelled out in basic terms for the British Prime Minister to understand, how to overcome some of the greatest problems besetting his government.
First among them was the migrant crisis, which has rocked a decade worth of successive British governments of both the now-in-power Labour and previously the Conservatives. That no government has succeeded — or even really tried — to