May: UK will back free trade; Farage not a Trump go-between
LONDON — Britain will champion free trade while protecting communities from the negative effects of globalization, Prime Minister Theresa May plans to say Monday in a speech acknowledging that the election of Donald Trump and the U.K. vote to leave the European Union mark an era of profound world change.
May was making her first major foreign policy speech Monday night at the annual Lord Mayor’s Banquet in London, as the British government tries to build bridges with a U.S.