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Corbyn: Relations with the US Not ‘Most Important’

Corbyn: Relations with the US Not ‘Most Important’
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British Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn questioned the value of Britain's ‘special relationship' with the US, suggesting Washington is not actually the UK's ‘most important ally,' while criticizing US President Donald Trump's ‘endless offensive remarks.'

Corbyn: Relations with the US Not ‘Most Important’

Corbyn cast doubt on the existence of a close bond between the two states, vaunted since wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill first used the phrase "a special relationship" back in 1946.

Asked Sunday whether the relationship with the US was Britain's most important, Corbyn said: "No. I think there are many important relationships."

The others include China, India, the EU and international organizations, such as the UN, Corbyn told ITV's Peston on Sunday show.

"I'm not sure that anyone has succeeded in defining the special relationship," Corbyn went on, saying he was once told by a former prime minister "if they specified what the special relationship was, it wouldn't be a special relationship."

Corbyn's remarks followed Trump's decision to call off his planned UK trip for the opening of the new US embassy in London. The US leader tweeted the announcement, blaming his predecessor Barack Obama for making a "bad deal" on the embassy's relocation site.

Corbyn, however, was not disappointed by the news, saying he was "not surprised."
Given Trump's latest "comments about other countries, particularly in Africa," the US leader wouldn't have received the warmest of welcomes and "reaction against him would be huge," Corbyn said.

Apart from "his endless offensive remarks about women, about minorities and about different faiths," Corbyn said the "biggest disappointment of Donald Trump" was "his failure to support international institutions like the United Nations and like UNESCO."

Still, the US president has got to come to the UK at "some point," Corbyn noted.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

 

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