London — US President Donald Trump arrived in "hot spot" Britain on Thursday after casting doubt on Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans for leaving the EU and with protests planned across the country where he says the people like him a lot. After a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit where he provoked a crisis session to force allies to raise their defence spending, Trump landed in Britain for his first visit as president, having described the closest US ally in Europe as being in turmoil over Brexit. May hopes Trump, who landed at Stansted Airport before flying by helicopter to the US ambassador’s London residence, will help to accelerate a future free-trade deal, though his public comments on Brexit cast a shadow over the visit. "I’m going to a pretty hot spot right now, right? With a lot of resignations," Trump told a news conference at the Nato summit in Brussels.
Trump’s trip coincides with a tumultuous week for May after two senior ministers resigned in protest at h...
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