Marine Le Pen says Theresa May is ‘putting her plan into action’ – WBNews

Marine Le Pen has said Donald Trump and Theresa May are “putting her plan into action”, a day after Ms May’s landmark speech on Brexit. The Front National leader and far-right French presidential candidate said the US President-elect and the UK Prime Minister were both in the process of implementing her strategy of “economic patriotism” and “intelligent protectionism”. Speaking during a visit to Moselle on Wednesday, Ms Le Pen said: “We need economic patriotism; we need intelligent protectionism, [a programme that] Mr trump and Ms May are in the process of implementing.” She added: “In effect, they are putting the plan of Marine Le Pen into action”. Ms Le Pen, who is one of the frontrunners in the upcoming race for French president, proceeded to say that such a situation “worked well” for her, before lauding Mr Trump on his claim to have prevented car company Ford from moving their production plant away from the US with a tweet. “And it works very well, because in one tweet, Donald Trump succeeded in obtaining more changes in the US than Mr Sarkozy and Mr Hollande managed in 10 years of presidency,” she said. Last November, Ms Le Pen declared victory for her in the French elections would be the next step in the political wave sweeping the globe, saying it would be the third act of a “global revolution” which has seen Brexit and Mr Trump’s seizure of the White House shake the world. She has consistently praised Mr Trump, calling…more detail