Theresa May today revealed that Donald Trump told her she should sue the EU in order to deliver Brexit.
The Prime Minister revealed the explosive private advice the US President gave her as they held private talks.
But she laughed off the proposals and said that instead she has engaged the EU with negotiations and come up with a Chequers deal which delivers on Brexit.
Appearing on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show today, she was quizzed on what the private advice was which the President had dished out.
She said: ‘He told me that I should sue the EU. Not go into negotiation, sue them. Actually no. We are going into negotiations with them.’
But the Prime Minister did not say how or on what grounds the US President thinks she can sue the Brussels club.
The remarks came as the PM launched her Brexit fightback as mutinous Tory Brexiteers rounded on her in a series of scathing interviews lashing her plans.

The Prime Minister revealed the explosive private advice the US President gave her as they held private talks

Appearing on the BBC ‘s Andrew Marr show today, she was quizzed on what the private advice was which the President had dished out

Theresa May (pictured with Donald Trump at Chequers on Friday) laughed off his advice and said the UK had to negotiate with the EU
Mr Trump sparked fury by storming into the Brexit row during his controversial visit to the UK this week.
He said the Chequers Brexit blueprint killed off hopes of a trade deal and accused the PM of snubbing his advice on how to negotiate.
The PM is under huge pressure over her controversial Brexit plans with mutinous Tory MPs plotting to oust her unless she abandons the plan.
But she launched her big fightback today by appearing for a rare live TV interview on to sell her plan.
She said: ‘I recognise there are many people watching this programme and the millions who voted Leave, who feel passionately about leaving the EU. There are many people who voted from the heart to leave the EU.
‘But my job as Prime Minister is to deliver for them but to be hard-headed and to deliver it in a way that protects the best interests of the UK.’
In a day of dramatic Brexit interventions:
- Theresa May fought back warning Tories to back her plan or risk having no Brexit
- Brexiteers turned the screw on the PM ahead of crunch trade votes this week
- David Davis accused her of astonishing dishonesty by claiming there is no Plan B
- Former Brexit minister Steve Baker hit out at a cloak and dagger anti Brexit plot
- Jacob Rees-Mogg launched an astonishing personal attack on the Prime Minister
- Labour Brexiteer John Mann said he might vote for PM’s Chequers Brexit plan
- Opinium poll shows Tory Party’s ratings have tumbled in wake of Brexit civil war
She insisted her plan is a good deal for the UK – saying it protects jobs by delivering on a frictionless border.
And she stressed her Brexit red lines of leaving the customs union, ending free movement and freeing the UK from the meddling of EU judges will all be stuck to.
But she repeatedly refused to say when her ex Brexit Secretary David Davis was told about the details of the controversial blueprint.
She said: ‘This is a deal that has benefits. our companies will abide by these rules anyway, keeping a frictionless border means that jobs will be protected, it protects the Northern Ireland order.
‘It is non negotiable that freedom of movement will end. it is non negotiable that we are coming out of the customs union it s non negotiable that we will end the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.’
While today Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan told warring Tory MPs to unite or risk their party going ‘down the plug hole’.
He issues a stern warning to mutinous Tory rebels such as Mr Rees-Mogg.
He told the BBC’s Pienaar Politics that the Conservative party could ‘go down the plug hole’ if MPs don’t pull together.
Her remarks come after she warned Tory Eurosceptics that they must either back her Chequers plan or risk having no Brexit at all.
Writing in the Mail on Sunday, she said: ‘My message to the country this weekend is simple: we need to keep our eyes on the prize.
The Prime Minister is getting tough with her backbenchers after a a week of open Tory civil war over her plans for quitting the EU.
Boris Johnson and David Davis both quit her Cabinet in fury at the proposals – plunging her leadership and Government into turmoil.
Their resignations came in hours of each others and reignited talk the PM would face a leadership challenge.
While Tory Brexiteers sharpened their knives for the PM amid swirling rumours that they will oust her as leader unless she abandons her plans.
Mr Trump waded into the row in an incendiary intervention in which he warned that her Chequers plan kills off nay hope of a transatlantic trade deal.
Storming into domestic British politics – and throwing diplomatic norms out of the window – the US President claimed the PM had snubbed his advice to get tougher with Brussels.
His astonishing remarks were quickly seized upon by Brexiteers who said he was right.
The intervention piled further pressure on Mrs May to abandon her plans.
And in a fresh blow to her authority, Brexiteers are out in force today demanding that she abandon the Chequers blueprint.
Mr Rees-Mogg – who is leader of the Eurosceptic group the European Research Group – accused the PM of trying to ‘gull’ Brexiteers.
In an astonishing and highly personal attack, he accused her of acting in an ‘untrusting’ way.
He accused Mrs May of being so ‘oddly secretive’ in her ‘headlong retreat that even key Secretaries of State didn’t know’.
He added: ‘She always wanted a soft Brexit.
‘The Chequers U-turn, the failure of the Mansion House test and abandonment of ‘Brexit means Brexit’ has broken trust.
‘It would have been more straightforward to admit that no real Brexit was the intention all along rather than trying to gull Brexiteers.
‘Perhaps we ought to have realised earlier on that a Remainer would stick with Remain.’
Mr Rees-Mogg – who has earned a reputation as one of Parliament’s most polite MP – also took a swipe at the PM for drawing a distinction between ‘passionate’ Brexiteers and her need to make hard headed political decisions.
He told the BBC’s Sunday Politics programme today: ‘In the view of most Brexiteers, head and heart come together, I’m afraid the Prime minister doesn’t see that.
‘I think she’s a Remainer who has remained a Remainer.’
While Mr Davis also lashed her Brexit plan and accused No10 of ‘astonishing dishonesty’ in claiming there is no alternative to Chequers.
Writing for The Sunday Times, he slammed the PM’s plans saying that her plan to stick to EU rules would leave Britain’s ‘fingers caught in this mangle’.
He said the Chequers third way proposal would mean the control of Parliament over UK law ‘more illusory than real’.
He accused the cabinet of having made ‘concessions to the EU that were so fundamental they risked undermining the whole Brexit process’.
Mr Davis added: ‘None of this really amounts to taking back control.
‘Some are saying that those on the other side of the argument have not worked out an alternative.
‘This is an astonishingly dishonest claim.’
And in yet more bad news for the PM Labour has opened up its biggest poll lead since the election – sparking warnings that backing the PM’s controversial Brexit plan will install Jeremy Corbyn in No10.
And they had an unlikely ally in Tony Blair who today piled into Theresa May’s Brexit plan – branding it the ‘worst of all worlds’.
The former Labour leader joined Tory rebels in attacking the PM’s controversial Chequers plan and warned that it would leave Britain a rule taker not maker.
He said that for two years minsters have been trying to ‘have their cake and eat it’ but the Brexit blueprint is an admission of defeat.
But he warned that by not cutting ties with Brussels completely and going for a full-throttled Brexit the PM was trying to push through a fudge which would never work.
And he reiterated his call for a second referendum in the deal – saying this is the only way to settle the Tory Brexit civil war raging.
Writing on his website, Mr Blair said: ‘I fully accept the Prime Minister is putting forward the Government White Paper as a well-intentioned attempt to do Brexit whilst minimising the economic disruption to Britain.
‘But this solution – half in/half out – won’t work, won’t end the argument and will simply mean a confused outcome in which we continue to abide by Europe’s rules whilst losing our say over them.
‘Parliament should reject this solution decisively.’
Mr Blair said the Chequers proposal will mean the UK will have to continue swallowing EU rules without having a say in them.
He said: The Chequers Cabinet summit and the White Paper were the first serious attempt to choose and resolve the dilemma.
‘But in practice, under this proposal, we are staying in the Single Market for goods, whilst losing our voice in it.
‘Likewise, with the so-called ‘Customs Partnership’.
‘This is effectively the Customs Union just renamed, with the possibility at some later time of getting agreement to some as yet undiscovered technological facilitation of trade which would allow us to have different tariffs on goods.
‘This is pie in the sky.
‘In any event until the time the pie miraculously appears on earth, it will be impossible to do trade deals elsewhere, as President Trump has just confirmed.
Meanwhile, an Opinium poll for The Observer newspaper found that Tory support has plummeted to 36 per cent – some six points lower than it was in June.
Meanwhile, Labour have stayed on 40 per cent, while Ukip – the Brexit backing party most commentators had written off – have surged to 8 per cent.
Mr Baker said the poll shows that backing Chequers would effectively hand the keys to No10 to Mr Corbyn.
He said: ‘It looks like Chequers means Corbyn. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
‘There’s still time to change course. Just.’
The poll also shows that Mrs May’s personal ratings have nosedived – plunging from -8 to -24.
But in a boost for Mrs May, pro Brexit Labour MP John Mann said he may join Mrs May in the division lobbies and vote for her Chequers plan.
He drew a stark line between Labour Brexiteers and Tory Eurosceptics, and said he would support the plan rather than see the UK crash out of Brussels without a deal.
He said: ‘I’ll not be voting in the same lobby as those who vote to scupper Brexit.
‘If they are in the lobbies with Jacob Rees-Mogg the public will be asking some big questions.’

Labour, led by Jeremy Corbyn (pictured yesterday at the Durham miners gala) have remained steady on 40 per cent