Theresa May warned Britain’s next prime minister they must be ready for “unpredictable” Donald Trump.
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The ex-PM, who is standing down at the general election, said the former United States president will make promises during his campaign but is likely to do something different if he wins.
And she shared one major hope for her successor based on her experience of dealing with Mr Tump.
“All I can say is I hope he doesn’t hold their hand,” she joked after being pictured when he clasped her as they walked down a ramp in the grounds of the White House.
Mrs May insisted there is still a “special relationship” between the UK and US that has continued regardless of who is in power
Donald Trump holds Theresa May's hand during White House visit (Image: Getty)
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She added: “The thing about Donald Trump is is he is unpredictable. And some of the things that he says during the time in the election campaign working to become president, you might very well find that he wouldn't actually deliver on those and would do something different.
At an event in Westminster with journalists, Mrs May also insisted that the results of the UK are not a foregone conclusion and pointed to her own experience of calling a vote in 2017 after being 20 points ahead in the polls only to lose her majority.
She said that Sir Keir Starmer is not creating the same enthusiasm among voters as Sir Tony Blair did.
She added: “I think I was probably 20 points ahead in most of the 2017 election and look what's happened to that.”
Mrs May said Labour did not perform as well as it needed to in the local election results and neither did the Liberal Democrats.
“I think the message from that was a bit of a ‘plague on all your houses’.”
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Mrs May said a “difficult discussion” is need around solving social care, the issue viewed as tanking her election campaign.
The ex-PM said too many people now expect the state to solve their problems.
She added: “If I'm perfectly honest with you at some stage in the discussion of these issues over the years, we have lost the sense that we certainly always had in the Conservative Party, that people, when they could put some savings by for a rainy day to be able to look after themselves when they were in difficulties.”
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She added: “There's a very difficult discussion to be had with the public about social care, because there is that assumption that government is always going to pay for it.
“Why should somebody who is perhaps sitting on a house which has a significant value, expect the family that are on average earnings and struggling to make ends meet, pay for that other person's social care.
“So I think there's real challenges there. There’s no easy answer. But it's an issue that we have got to address.”
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