Both men ran as tribunes of the people against the elite. Both argued that elitist politicians had put foreigners ahead of their own countrymen. Trump’s slogan was ‘America First’. Campaigning for Brexit, Johnson toured Britain in a bus demanding that Britain stop paying £350 million a week (a much disputed figure) to the EU, demanding: ‘Let’s fund our NHS instead.’ In foreign policy, both took aim at their country’s traditional alliances. Johnson’s most important policy was to take Britain out of the European Union. Trump made it clear that he regarded NATO as biased against American
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