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		</div><p>Donald Trump’s narrowed eyes and belligerent posture make him appear like Italian wartime dictator Benito Mussolini in a wig, Bernard Ingham has said.</p>
<p>Mr Ingham, who was Margaret Thatcher’s press secretary, posed the question: Is Trump, a man used to getting his own way, sufficiently modest to take advice from a British prime minister &#8211; and a woman to boot?<br />
&#8220;Is he man enough take a real handbagging when Theresa May gets seriously critical?</p>
<p>&#8220;I simply cannot imagine Trump cowering in the Oval Office before May, partly because of his unbounded certitude of approach &#8211; take, for example, his drive for a wall along the Mexican border &#8211; and partly because May is not as passionate as Thatcher.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Ingham, writing in the Yorkshire Post, spoke of Mr Trump’s misogyny and his apparent desire to be seen as &#8220;one of the lads&#8221;.</p>
<p>He asked: &#8220;Can Trump be persuaded that his instinctive protectionism will do the world no good at all and play into the hands of China to boot?</p>
<p>&#8220;Here May has a real international job to do to prevent an American-led beggar-my-neighbour approach to international trade.</p>
<p>&#8220;Trump does not seem to have warmed to any other international statesman, with the possible &#8211; and awful &#8211; exception of (Russian President Vladimir) Putin. I think May is both able and desires to help Trump become a great president.</p>
<p>&#8220;But is he sufficiently modest to value candid friends? Thatcher did not think you were much of a friend if you were not candid.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Ingham spoke of the &#8220;great Trump-May hand-holding love-in&#8221; at the White House, comparing it to the Reagan-Thatcher relationship in the 1980s.</p>
<p>&#8220;I shall reserve judgment until they have met a few times and weathered a few storms together.</p>
<p>&#8220;I shall know that, by Jove, they’ve done it when I get that old 1980s feeling when they meet that I am again directing Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With The Wind. Forget about holding hands. Wait for the first kiss.&#8221;</p>
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