Trump claims Corbyn unlikely to succeed in no-confidence vote against ‘great one’ Boris Johnson

New PM ‘is exactly what the UK has been looking for,’ president tweets

Donald Trump has claimed any attempt by Jeremy Corbyn to subject Boris Johnson to a no-confidence vote in parliament would be unlikely to succeed.

“Would be very hard for Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain’s Labour Party, to seek a no-confidence vote against New Prime Minister Boris Johnson, especially in light of the fact that Boris is exactly what the U.K. has been looking for, & will prove to be “a great one!” the US president tweeted on Wednesday.

He concluded his tweet with, “Love U.K.”

Mr Trump and Mr Johnson met at the G7 summit at the weekend when the US president heaped praise on his counterpart, calling him the “right man” to deliver Brexit.

The Republican’s extraordinary intervention came as Mr Johnson secured the Queen’s permission to prorogue parliament ahead of the 31 October Brexit deadline.

The prime minister’s move sparked anger among opposition MPs and remain-backing Tories, with former minister Justine Greening condemning it as a “grubby attempt” to force through a no-deal withdrawal.

Mr Corbyn has previously insisted he planned to table a no-confidence motion in Mr Johnson’s new government when parliament returned in September, but did not reveal the possible timing.

Now, parliament will be suspended from between 9 and 12 September until 14 October, following a meeting of the Privy Council at Balmoral.

The Queen’s Speech is set to take place on 14 October.

Both Mr Corbyn and Jo Swinson, the Liberal Democrat leader, said they had sought meetings with the monarch on Monday after Mr Johnson’s prorogation plans emerged.

There is no love lost between the right-wing Mr Trump and the hard-left Labour leader. The US president said that he had refused Mr Corbyn’s request for a meeting during his state visit earlier this year and branded him a “somewhat negative force”.

“I really don’t like critics as much as I like and respect people who get things done. So I decided not to meet,” he said at the time.

And, writing exclusively in The Independent this week, Mr Corbyn said no-deal Brexit would leave Britain “at the mercy of Trump and the big US corporations dying to get their teeth into our NHS, sound the death knell for our steel industry and strip back our food standards and animal welfare protections”.