But British MPs tore into Mr Trump for talking ‘nonsense’ and said he should ‘butt out’ of UK affairs he ‘does not understand’.

Responding to the comments, Labour MP Chris Bryant said: ‘Butt out of it mister president.

‘You have more murders in New York or Chicago every year than we do in the whole country so we’re not going to take any lessons from you.

‘And you clearly don’t understand the difference between causation and correlation.’