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Donald Trump wants Brexit to be a success, with the UK being "first in line" for a trade deal with the US, his national security adviser has said.

John Bolton said the US could focus on striking bilateral trade deals in certain sectors like manufacturing and car-making where the two countries may agree, and work out more complicated areas later.

Speaking following a meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on a visit to London, Mr Bolton said in the eyes of the president “Britain's constantly at the front of the trade queue, or line as we say.”

He said: "The main purpose of the visit really is to convey President Trump's desire to see a successful exit from the European Union for the United Kingdom on October 31, to offer to be of help in any way that we can and to express his hope we can have a fully comprehensive bilateral trade agreement with the United Kingdom as soon as possible."

He added: "To be clear, in the Trump administration, Britain's constantly at the front of the trade queue, or line as we say."

Mr Bolton said the US could do a trade deal with the UK "in pieces" and concentrate on areas, like manufacturing and the car-making industry, they can agree on first.

He said: "You could do it sector by sector, you could do it in a modular fashion in other words. You could carve out some areas where it might be possible to reach a bilateral agreement very quickly, very straightforwardly.

"That would then lock that in and when the other areas that might be more difficult were concluded later, you could combine it in one overall agreement. So the objective is either one document or a series of agreements that would be comprehensive.

"In order to expedite things and enhance the possibility for increasing the trade and investments between the two countries, doing it in a sector-by-sector approach or some other approach that the trade negotiators might agree with, we are open to that."

He added: "The idea of doing it in pieces rather than waiting for the whole thing is not unprecedented. I think here we see the importance and urgency of doing as much as we can agree on as rapidly as possible because of the impending October 31 exit date."

Asked whether piecemeal trade agreements like this are allowed under WTO rules, Mr Bolton said: "Our trade negotiators seem to think it is."

Mr Bolton also attacked the EU and said the UK's decision to leave the EU should be respected.

Mr Bolton said: "The fashion in the European Union when the people vote the wrong way from the way that the elites want to go, is to make the peasants vote again and again until they get it right."

Mr Bolton's remarks come as a new ComRes poll for The Telegraph found 54 per cent of the public agree that Mr Johnson "needs to deliver Brexit by any means, including suspending Parliament if necessary, in order to prevent MPs from stopping it".

Many MPs have expressed outrage at the idea of "proroguing" Parliament in order to avoid a no-deal scenario being halted by the Commons.

The poll of 2,011 British adults also, however, found 51 per cent of respondents agree that "Brexit should be halted if problems over the Northern Ireland border threaten to split the Union".

According to the figures, 88 per cent of respondents feel Parliament is "out of touch" with the British public, and that 89 per cent feel MPs "ignore the wishes of voters and push their own agendas" on Brexit.

It comes a judge will decide on Tuesday whether a legal challenge attempting to prevent Mr Johnson forcing through a no-deal Brexit by suspending Parliament will be heard before October 31.

The legal bid, backed by more than 70 MPs and peers, is seeking to get the Court of Session in Edinburgh to rule that suspending Parliament to make the UK leave the EU without a deal is "unlawful and unconstitutional".

The petition has been filed at the Edinburgh court, which sits through the summer, and was granted permission to be heard by a judge.

An initial hearing is due to take place before Lord Doherty at the Court of Session on Tuesday morning to determine the timescale of when the legal challenge will proceed.

The Prime Minister has promised to take the UK out of the EU with or without a deal by October 31 - the final day of the extended Article 50 period agreed by European leaders - claiming it will "restore trust in our democracy".

The legal bid was granted permission to proceed by the Scottish courts, with anti-Brexit campaigners stressing the urgency of the case due to the Halloween deadline.