Donald Trump congratulates Boris on Twitter and says he will be a ‘great’ PM for Britain

DONALD Trump has congratulated Boris Johnson on his incredible win in the Tory leadership race, saying he will make a “great” PM.

The US President tweeted his best wishes to the man who will take the reins in Britain tomorrow.

He took less than half an hour to log on to the social media site to post a message after Boris was elected as leader of the Conservatives at midday today.

Mr Trump wrote at 12.29pm British time: “Congratulations to Boris Johnson on becoming the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

“He will be great!”

And his daughter Ivanka also tweeted her congrats too.

But Boris won’t actually become PM until tomorrow, after Theresa May steps down officially.

She will go to Buckingham Palace to resign after taking her last PMQs session in the House of Commons.

Then Boris will visit Her Majesty at Buckingham Palace too, and he will become the 55th PM of the United Kingdom.

The President has previously said Boris would make a good PM, and lavished praise on him when he came to visit the UK earlier this month.

But in the past few weeks the special relationship has turned sour following the leaking of cables from the UK ambassador to the UK.

Sir Kim Darroch’s cables describing President Trump’s administration as “inept” and dysfunctional were revealed and splashed over the front pages of the newspapers.

The President labelled him “very stupid” and Sir Kim later resigned his post.

And he hit out at Theresa May too, saying on Twitter she was “foolish” for not listening to his advice on Brexit.

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Boris didn’t meet with the US President during his trip to Britain, but the pair did talk on the phone.

They appear to have a good relationship and Team Boris will be hoping they can repair any damage to US-UK links when he gets into No10.

Boris is set to make his communications with Donald Trump a priority, as he will be hoping to kick-start a trade deal as soon as possible.

He could even fly over to visit him in his first few weeks in power to lay the foundations for it.

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