Senators scold UK prime minister for declining Democratic invite

British Prime Minister Theresa May played “partisan” favorites during her trip to the United States, according to a pair of Senate Democrats who alleged she made herself a political prop for Republicans.

“We write to express our disappointment that your first official visit to the United States as Prime Minister was partisan in nature,” Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy and New Hampshire’s Jeanne Shaheen wrote in a Monday letter. “You are the first serving foreign leader to speak at a congressional Republican retreat. We believe your decision to do so, and to decline to meet with congressional Democrats in a similar fashion, was a breach of protocol.”