Punishing UK for Brexit will end BADLY for EU, Donald Trump’s Brussels envoy pick blasts
DONALD TRUMP’S expected pick for EU ambassador has warned Brussels it will end badly for the bloc if they try to make an example out of the UK.
By LIZZIE STROMME
Express.co.uk
Sun, Apr 2, 2017
Ted Malloch said trying to punish Britain for exiting the union to avoid others following suit could lead to a backlash for the bloc.
Speaking to RT after Theresa May triggered Article 50 on Wednesday, Mr Malloch said: “It’s a great day for Great Britain.
“I think that finally there will be freedom again in Great Britain as a result of leaving the EU.
“It’s a democratic vote, a referendum to leave, and I actually think it will be a fairly clear break. It won’t be a soft break or a hard break but a clean break.”
Mr Malloch, who has previously sparked the European Union’s fury for his support of Brexit, also suggesting trying to pushing the UK for leaving will only harm the bloc.
He said: “You hear some people going to those negotiations saying that they’re going to be very harsh, very punitive, and ‘we’re going to teach Britain a lesson’.
“Well, that really won’t be very constructive if that’s the case. It will be a very short negotiation; I suspect it can be over in as few as six months.
“But if they take this ‘we’re going to teach Britain a lesson so nobody else does this’ attitude, I think it will end badly, particularly for the EU.”
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