Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that Britain needs to cut a deal with the European Union as part of Brexit in lieu of securing a trade deal with the U.S. under her former rival, President Trump, as he is “someone who says he doesn’t believe in trade.”
She told BBC that failing to secure a Brexit deal would put the country at a “very big disadvantage.”
“I mean, no deal meaning no preferential trade deals, which means products in Britain would not have the kind of easy access to the European market that you’ve had under EU membership,” Clinton said Friday during an interview on BBC One’s “Andrew Marr Show.”
Clinton told BBC that Britain can’t hope for a U.S. deal with Trump because he “doesn’t believe in trade.” She referenced Trump’s moves to pull out of existing agreements and moves to renegotiate NAFTA, which her husband Bill Clinton signed while he was president.
Last week, Clinton said in an interview with the Sunday Times that the majority of voters who support the referendum to leave the European Union believed that “somehow this would be good for their small village” – a move she said that “made no sense.”
Nigel Farage, the former head of the UK Independence Party which spearheaded the Brexit movement, shot back on Twitter Saturday.
“Hillary Clinton is part of the global elite that want to overturn Brexit,” he tweeted. “We will resist.”
Hillary Clinton is part of the global elite that want to overturn Brexit. We will resist.
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) October 14, 2017
