Theresa May to meet Donald Trump

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Theresa May has insisted being a female Prime Minister and the first foreign leader to meet Donald Trump since his inauguration will be the &&num;8220&semi;biggest statement&&num;8221&semi; she can make about the role of women in the world&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs May confirmed she will meet the US president in Washington DC on Friday after a weekend in which hundreds of thousands of people around the world joined women&&num;8217&semi;s marches to protest against Mr Trump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The PM said she will tell Mr Trump when she finds his behaviour or statements &&num;8220&semi;unacceptable&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8211&semi; a criticism she has already levelled at him over his past comments about women&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs May has previously used the term &&num;8220&semi;unacceptable&&num;8221&semi; to describe Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s suggestion that his fame allowed him to &&num;8220&semi;do anything&&num;8221&semi; to women&comma; such as &&num;8220&semi;grabbing them by the pussy&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The President&&num;8217&semi;s repeated highly controversial remarks about women inspired massive &&num;8220&semi;pink pussy hat&&num;8221&semi; marches attended by at least 500&comma;000 in Washington DC and 100&comma;000 in London on Saturday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The PM said the &&num;8220&semi;special relationship&&num;8221&semi; between the UK and US will allow her to criticise Mr Trump where she sees fit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Asked if she would raise the controversial tycoon&&num;8217&semi;s treatment of women at their meeting&comma; Mrs May told BBC One&&num;8217&semi;s Andrew Marr Show&colon; <i>&&num;8220&semi;I have already said that some of the comments that Donald Trump has made in relation to women are unacceptable&comma; some of those he himself has apologised for&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;When I sit down I think the biggest statement that will be made about the role of women is the fact that I will be there as a female Prime Minister&comma; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom&comma; directly taking to him about the interests that we share&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The PM highlighted her &&num;8220&semi;track record&&num;8221&semi; in defending the interests of women&comma; including moves to tackle modern slavery and domestic violence while home secretary&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She said she was &&num;8220&semi;proud&&num;8221&semi; to be the second female premier&comma; adding&colon; <i>&&num;8220&semi;I will be talking to Donald Trump about the issues that we share &&num;8211&semi; about how we can build on the special relationship&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s the special relationship that also enables us to say when we do find things unacceptable&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs May added&colon; <i>&&num;8220&semi;Whenever there is something that I find unacceptable I will say that to Donald Trump&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs May insisted Mr Trump was looking for &&num;8220&semi;early&&num;8221&semi; talks on a UK-US free trade deal despite his &&num;8220&semi;America first&&num;8221&semi; strategy sparking concerns that he would not be willing to reach an agreement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&&num;8220&semi;He and people around him have also spoken of the importance of a trade arrangement with the United Kingdom and that is something they are looking to talk to us about at an early stage&comma; and I would expect to be able to talk to him about that alongside the other issues I will be discussing with him when I am in Washington&comma;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i> she said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs May has also spoken of reducing barriers to trade before a formal deal can be reached after Brexit&comma; amid reports of potential moves to set up a &&num;8220&semi;passporting&&num;8221&semi; system for transatlantic banking&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And she defended Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s widely criticised &&num;8220&semi;America first&&num;8221&semi; message&colon; <i>&&num;8220&semi;If you think about it&comma; any leader&comma; any government&comma; as we do here in the United Kingdom when we look at any issue&comma; we ensure that we&&num;8217&semi;re putting the UK&&num;8217&semi;s interests and the interests of British people first&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Prime Minister insisted Mr Trump was committed to Nato despite worries that he has consistently undermined the mutual defence alliance at a time of Russian aggression&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At their meeting&comma; the pair could agree a statement emphasising their commitment to spending at least 2&percnt; of GDP on defence and urging other Nato countries to match them&comma; according to reports&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs May said&colon; <i>&&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;ve spoken to him about Nato &&num;8211&semi; Nato is very important&comma; Nato has been the bulwark of our security here in Europe and we work together in Nato&comma;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i> she said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;ve both made the point before about contributions being made by countries&comma; the United Kingdom is spending 2&percnt; of its GDP on defence&comma; I believe that&&num;8217&semi;s important&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She added&colon; <i>&&num;8220&semi;What is important is that we recognise the value of Nato&comma; which he does&comma; the value of Nato as an organisation that is helping us to defend Europe and defend the interests of all of those allies who are in Nato&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs May also suggested her visit would be followed by a state visit by Mr Trump to Britain this year&comma; which would include an audience with the Queen and the pomp and pageantry of which the President seems so fond&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&&num;8220&semi;I would look forward to welcoming President Trump here to the United Kingdom sometime this year if that&&num;8217&semi;s possible but of course in terms of state visits that&&num;8217&semi;s a matter for Buckingham Palace and they haven&&num;8217&semi;t announced the visits this year yet&comma;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i> she said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e3043b52">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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