As US president, Hillary Clinton would be alert to Ireland’s interests

London Letter: Democratic candidate may prove less Anglophile than Brexiteers wish

Hillary Clinton: has a strong emotional attachment to Ireland.  Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

Hillary Clinton: has a strong emotional attachment to Ireland. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

As Donald Trump faces the probability of defeat on November 8th, he has clutched with ever greater urgency at the straw of Brexit, which has replaced Harry Truman’s upset victory over Thomas Dewey in 1948 as the last, flickering hope of failing candidates everywhere.

“We will shock the world. This is going to be Brexit-plus,” Trump told a rally in Pennsylvania last week, promising to confound the polls just as Britain’s Leave campaign did.

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