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One of Donald Trump\u2019s most senior aides has insisted the UK will be \u201cat the top of the queue\u201d for a trade deal after Brexit.<\/p>\nOne of Donald Trump\u2019s most senior aides has insisted the UK will be \u201cat the top of the queue\u201d for a trade deal after Brexit.<\/p>\n
John Bolton, the president\u2019s national security adviser, said Mr Trump was \u201ceager for the will of the British people to be carried out, and he is even more eager to do a trade deal\u201d.<\/p>\n
The veteran US politician also attempted to assuage widely-held concerns over the potential damage from a no-deal Brexit, highlighting how Britain would be able to boost transatlantic trade.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople who worry about the United Kingdom crashing out of the European Union \u2013 they are going to crash right into the United States,\u201d Mr Bolton told Sky News.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are standing here waiting to make a trade deal with a UK independent of the EU.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Trump has predicted that trade between the US and UK will increase \u201cvery substantially\u201d after Britain\u2019s departure from the EU.<\/p>\n
We are standing here waiting to make a trade deal with a UK independent of the EU<\/p>\n
Speaking earlier this month, he said that Brexit had been negotiated \u201cbadly\u201d but he would like to see the \u201cwhole situation work out\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are talking with them about trade and we can do a very big trade deal with the UK,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Former US president Barack Obama drew the ire of Brexiteers in the run-up to the 2016 referendum by saying Britain would be \u201cat the back of the queue\u201d to negotiate a trade deal it left the EU.<\/p>\n
Mr Bolton told Sky News: \u201cThis isn\u2019t the Obama administration; Britain will be at the top of the queue for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The prospect of a wide-ranging post-Brexit free trade deal with the US has not been universally welcomed in Britain.<\/p>\n
Some critics have warned that Washington could demand unfettered access to the UK for American farmers to UK consumers, potentially damaging British producers.<\/p>\n
There have also been warnings over food standards, although they have been vociferously rejected by US figures including Mr Trump\u2019s ambassador to the UK, Woody Johnson.<\/p>\n