Brexit: Obama’s warnings on US-UK trade deal

It could take Britain up to a decade to negotiate a trade deal with America – if it decides to leave Europe, Barack Obama has warned – provoking more outcry from Brexit campaigners.

But it’s the Home Secretary Theresa May who’s been under pressure today – as she admitted that controlling immigration into the UK would be harder – given Europe’s rights to free movement. Our senior Home affairs correspondent Simon Israel reports.


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