The reason given internally by No 10 for Theresa May’s failure to speak to President Trump on Monday was she arrived back from Sweden “too late”. Given the prime minister’s aircraft touched down at 11pm it is not an explanation universally believed, even if her colleagues accept the need to save prime-ministerial face. The truth was that the US president found time for a second phone call with President Macron of France, but not one with Mrs May in the immediate aftermath of the Douma attack on Saturday. Mrs May was the first foreign leader to meet President Trump at the White House but has lost ground to Emmanuel Macron CHRISTOPHER FURLONG/GETTY IMAGESThe burgeoning “bromance” between the presidents of France and the US has been causing angst in the Foreign Office and in Downing Street for some months. Mr Macron is…

Source: The Times April 10, 2018 23:00 UTC