Theresa May’s visit to Turkey betrays our liberal values
The prime minister is so desperate for trade deals that she is embracing a regime of full-frontal authoritarianism. This tawdry tour shames Britain And so the Brexit cavalcade gathers pace. After paying court to Donald Trump in Washington on Friday, Theresa May will fly to Turkey to meet another hard man with a weakness for "alternative facts": President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has engaged in a brutal clampdown on human rights that has shocked capitals around the world. Except, apparently, London, where the Conservative Brexit government is so desperate for trade deals with anyone but the mature democracies of the European Union that even the most unsavoury rulers are to be subjected to the prime ministerial charm.
