Whatever Theresa May does with Brexit is okay with Donald Trump as long as their two countries can trade freely, the US President told her on Friday.

The President also apologised to her over a politically damaging newspaper interview the previous day, in which he dismissed her plan for Brexit as probably killing the prospects of a trade deal between the two countries.

Trump and his wife, Melania, met briefly with the Queen on Friday, hours after a press conference with May at the Prime Minister's country residence Chequers.

At the press conference, held after long talks between the two leaders, Trump doubled down on claims he had made to The Sun newspaper that immigration was bad for Europe, and that her rival Boris Johnson would make a great prime minister.