The President is salivating over a weakened UK desperate for a deal with Washington and anticipating rich pickings for healthcare corporations on his side of the Atlantic.
We would pay a high price if Brexit results in feted right-wing politicians from Boris Johnson to Nigel Farage putting their warped ideologies before the interests of our nation.
The tyrannical liar from the USA is a rogue President ignoring sacred diplomatic conventions by interfering in British democracy.
Trump’s campaign connived with Russians to put him in the Oval Office so we should not be entirely surprised he is echoing here what the Kremlin did in the States.
The urgent challenge is to save the NHS and stop Trump sticking his nose into our politics.
Pension shock
Incorrect pensions forecasts are more than annoying official mistakes when older workers are relying on them to make retirement plans.
The scale of the errors, with more than a quarter of a million given inflated online forecasts, is intolerable with mistakes worth up to £1,500 a year or around £30 a week.
Britons are entitled to accurate figures. Apologies from the shambolic Department for Work and Pensions are no substitute for pounds cruelly snatched away from those who receive much less than it led them to expect.
The inability of the DWP and HMRC to get forecasts right does not instil confidence in the accuracy of actual sums paid to pensioners.
Spice of wife
Peter Crouch admitted wife Abbey Clancy was not a fan after he suggested calling their newborn son Divock Samrat – after a Liverpool FC footballer and his favourite Indian takeaway.
The lanky ex-England player will be trying to curry favour with her for a long time.
