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David Cameron has taken a job as chair of a US artificial intelligence firm’s advisory board, it was announced on Friday.

The former prime minister “will be responsible for curating and overseeing the strategic guidance” the board provides to Afiniti, the company said in a statement.

The Trump administration wants the UK to follow the 2016 referendum result and leave the European Union, National Security Advisor John Bolton said.
Speaking to the UK's Daily Telegraph, Mr Bolton said Brexit was an opportunity for the UK to become a "strong and independent country".

His remarks came ahead of a UK visit by President Trump, who has previously stated his support for Brexit.
Mr Trump was critical of Prime Minister Theresa May's negotiations with the EU.
The president's three-day trip, from 3 to 5 June, includes a Buckingham Palace dinner and breakfast with Mrs May, who has hailed the visit as an opportunity for the UK and US "to strengthen our already close relationship".

Speaking ahead of his visit, President Trump praised the UK Conservative Party leadership contender Boris Johnson, saying he would make "excellent" choice.

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UK: Today's Opinium poll shows Nigel Farage's BREXIT party (EFDD) as largest party in the national parliament (Westminster) voting intention. First poll ever to do so. #Brexit

— Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) June 1, 2019

BREAKING: Donald Trump tells The Sunday Times that the government should send Nigel Farage to negotiate Brexit, refuse to pay the £39bn and go for no deal if they don’t budge pic.twitter.com/dHuo3zokJn

— Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) June 1, 2019

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UK: Today's Opinium poll shows Nigel Farage's BREXIT party (EFDD) as largest party in the national parliament (Westminster) voting intention. First poll ever to do so. #Brexit

— Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) June 1, 2019

Senior politicians from all of the main parties have warned Donald Trump against “distasteful interference” in British politics during an already controversial state visit this week, with the Tory leadership race and future Brexit policy hanging in the balance.

Mr Trump was accused by party leaders and MPs past and present of breaking a longstanding convention by praising Boris Johnson, claiming he would make an “excellent” prime minister, ahead of a three-day trip to the UK which begins on Monday.
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Speaking to The Independent, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, a Tory former foreign secretary, said the comments by the “narcissistic and egocentric” Mr Trump were “unprecedented for a president of the United States”.
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He suggested that the comments could harm Mr Johnson’s chances of becoming prime minister, ”because nobody likes other people interfering in their election campaigns”. Tory MPs worried about losing their seats to the Liberal Democrats may be concerned if the party leader was backed by Mr Trump, he added.

Joining the growing backlash, Mr Corbyn said: “President Trump’s attempt to decide who will be Britain’s next prime minister is an entirely unacceptable interference in our country’s democracy.

“The next prime minister should be chosen not by the US president, nor by 100,000 unrepresentative Conservative Party members, but by the British people in a general election.”

And Sir Vince Cable, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, said Eurosceptic Tories who expressed anger at Barack Obama warning against Brexit in 2016 should also condemn Mr Trump’s comments.

He said: “Brexiteers expressed outrage at Obama telling a few truths during the referendum campaign.

“I look forward to hearing them pour the same opprobrium on bully boy Trump for intervening in the contest to become Tory leader.

“If ever a reason were needed to keep Boris Johnson out of Downing Street, it is Trump’s endorsement of him and of Brexit – both of which are bad for Britain.”

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trump-next-conservative-leader-boris-johnson-prime-minister-nigel-farage-a8939871.html

I can’t believe this is real. pic.twitter.com/zdLE3WXVVN

— Mark Di Stefano (@MarkDiStef) June 3, 2019

Chuka Umunna has now launched "The Alternative" pic.twitter.com/zjAC0EhBEL

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) June 4, 2019

Donald Trump has started his visit to Ireland by comparing its post-Brexit border with Northern Ireland to the US border with Mexico, along which he wants to build a permanent wall.

Trump, sitting next to a visibly uncomfortable taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, waded into the Brexit debate minutes after Air Force One touched down at Shannon airport on Wednesday afternoon.

“I think it will all work out very well, and also for you with your wall, your border,” he said at a joint press conference. “I mean, we have a border situation in the United States, and you have one over here. But I hear it’s going to work out very well here.”

Varadkar interjected that Ireland wished to avoid a border or a wall, a keystone of Irish government policy.

“I think you do, I think you do,” Trump said. “The way it works now is good, you want to try and to keep it that way. I know that’s a big point of contention with respect to Brexit. I’m sure it’s going to work out very well. I know they’re focused very heavily on it.”