Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May waits to greet Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban at Downing Street in London, Britain, November 9, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May will speak to U.S. election victor Donald Trump later on Thursday, her finance minister Philip Hammond said.

“Once he is inaugurated as president, I expect that the very strong and close relationship that always develops between the UK prime minister and the U.S. president will develop between those two,” Hammond told reporters in London.