This archive report was first published on 1 November 2019.
US President Donald Trump has waded into the UK's general election campaign, criticizing the country's main opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, and warning Prime Minister Boris Johnson that his EU divorce deal could imperil a future US-UK trade agreement.
On November 1, 2019, Trump launched a stinging attack on Corbyn, saying he would be 'so bad' for the UK.
Trump also urged Johnson to unite with Nigel Farage, a key figure in the 2016 referendum on European Union membership, to deliver Britain's departure from the bloc.
"Corbyn would be so bad for your country," Trump told Farage during a phone interview broadcast on his talkshow on British radio station LBC.
"He'd take you in such a bad way. He'd take you into such bad places," Trump added.
Farage, whose new party is campaigning for Britain to leave the EU without any deal in place, has urged Johnson to form an electoral alliance but has so far been rebuffed.
Corbyn shot back on Twitter that "Trump is trying to interfere in Britain's election to get his friend Boris Johnson elected".
Trump's comments appear at odds with his previous pledge in September that he was working closely with Johnson to strike a 'magnificent trade deal' once Britain left the EU.
