'Donald Trump humiliated me after shaking my hand- but didn't do it to men'

Katie Perrior, who was communications manager successful No10, has spilled the wrong details of gathering the President-elect successful 2017 - and has fixed immoderate proposal to Keir Starmer

Theresa May's erstwhile communications manager successful No10 has said Donald Trump utilized antibac aft shaking her manus - but not aft shaking the manus of her antheral colleagues.

Katie Perrior, who is present seat of the iNHouse Communications, has spilled the wrong details of gathering the President-elect backmost successful 2017 - and has fixed immoderate proposal to Keir Starmer. In a portion for the Times, she explained however she and the squad walked down a enactment to shingle hands with the overseas person successful their archetypal gathering aft helium won the 2016 US statesmanlike election.

But she warned that Mr Trump appeared to person a peculiar occupation with her. "Trump shook the hands of respective of my antheral colleagues earlier shaking mine, past looked astatine his manus and decided to antibac it successful beforehand of everyone," she said, earlier adding: "Some aboriginal proposal for Starmer: if you privation to marque a lasting content with Trump, instrumentality a beardown antheral entourage to amusement you mean business. Ridiculous successful 2024, but determination you go."

Speaking astir dealing with Mr Trump successful government, Ms Perrior said the President "bullied" his mode done "nightmare" telephone calls, "belittling" Mrs May. She besides said helium would "often" notation his pal Nigel Farage, "almost directing the PM to springiness Farage a relation of immoderate kind". And she besides revealed however Mr Trump had wanted streets lined with the nationalist waving American flags erstwhile helium visited the UK, "not realising that we can’t marque our citizens bash this (it’s not North Korea)".

Looking backmost aft Mr Trump won the US predetermination again connected Tuesday, Ms Perrior explained however captious it had been to unafraid an in-person gathering betwixt Mrs May and Mr Trump arsenic soon arsenic imaginable aft his 2016 triumph - particularly arsenic the erstwhile PM had been debased down successful the pecking bid to get a telephone telephone with the recently elected US President. She said it was a "triumph" to unafraid Mrs May's sojourn - the archetypal of immoderate overseas person - to the White House a week aft Mr Trump's inauguration successful January 2017.

After archetypal suggestions the brace would person beverage successful the White House without journalists' access, Ms Perrior said she was forced to invoke a Love Actually notation to backmost up her program to get the ex-PM to hold to a property conference.

She went on: "This backmost and distant went connected for immoderate clip and was hugely frustrating. It got to the constituent wherever I was informing Sean Spicer, the White House property secretary, that the PM truly wanted a property league portion astatine the aforesaid clip telling the PM that the president’s media squad besides wanted a property conference. Neither of which was strictly existent — but needs indispensable and each that."

After the presser Mrs May, Mr Trump and their teams had luncheon - thing Ms Perriror said she had been "dreading". The comms main admitted journalists astatine the clip got a stripped backmost summary of the luncheon that said it was a productive chat astir nationalist information and Brexit.

In reality, she said, details astir "how Trump behaved and the mode helium spoke to his colleagues" were near out. She said helium disagreed with Vice-President Mike Pence and talked astatine Mrs May astir abortion, a taxable connected which helium was "desperate for our approval".

Ms Perrior said the travel was a occurrence - contempt the infamous photograph being taken of Mr Tump holding Mrs May's hand. She besides added that a feline jumping connected her look astatine 3am arsenic she stayed successful the ambassador's residence was not a precocious point.

But she warned the caller Labour Prime Minister: "So what proposal for Starmer, different than taking that male-heavy entourage erstwhile visiting the States? Trump lone thinks successful 'wins' — and for him to win, that means you lose. He attacks each enactment successful the aforesaid manner. Starmer tin determine to beryllium a loser, oregon strategically presumption it truthful that Trump looks similar helium wins but Starmer really clocks up a fewer victories himself. "