Trump receives hard knock from British prime minister candidates

Candidates vying to replace Theresa May as the British prime minister, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt said they agreed that the language used by US president Donald Trump about a group of mostly American-born democratic congresswomen was unacceptable.

Trump on Sunday told the group to go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came, a comment that was condemned by democrats as racist.

Asked during a leadership debate whether they agreed with may that the comments were unacceptable, both front-runner Boris Johnson and foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said they did.

Johnson noted that relations between the UK and the US are incredibly important.

Asked whether the comments were racist, both Johnson and Hunt declined to use that term however.