David Lammy could not stop praising Donald Trump today, despite once being an especially vocal critic of the incoming US president. When he was a backbencher in 2018, Lammy called Trump a “woman-hating,
The Foreign Secretary has attempted to woo Donald Trump before his inauguration as the next President of the United States.
Foreign Secretary showers praise upon president-elect after previously calling him a ‘sociopath’ amid efforts to secure a trade deal
British Foreign Secretary Lammy — who lobbed multiple rhetorical hand grenades at Trump during his first term but now finds himself in a key U.K. government job — told BBC Radio 4 that he’d warmed to the president-elect in a face-to-face meeting last year.
Sir Keir Starmer will visit Washington for talks with Donald Trump within weeks, the foreign secretary has suggested. Speaking ahead of Trump's inauguration as president on Monday, David Lammy said the "strength" of the UK-US relationship meant he was "very confident" the PM would secure an early meeting.
In a gushing interview, Foreign Secretary David Lammy heaped praise on Donald Trump - who he previously branded a 'woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath'
The Foreign Secretary responded to reports that the Trump administration could reject the Labour grandee as ambassador to the US.
No place for ‘old-style paternalism’, declares Foreign Secretary who also urges UK to find ‘common ground’ with President Trump
Grogan warned that during Trump’s first term in office there was “far too much negative rhetoric…coming out of the UK about Donald Trump”, instead of what he called “respectful engagement”. He urged Starmer to “flip the page on this and be more respectful of Donald Trump in his second term”.
The Foreign Secretary made the remarks as he updated MPs about the new 100-year partnership deal between the UK and Ukraine.
Sir Keir Starmer is set to travel to Donald Trump’s White House within weeks after the US president took office promising a new “golden age of America”.
Donald Trump is not a warmonger and most people in the world are glad he is back in power, David Lammy said ahead of his inauguration on Monday. Going out of his way to praise the new president, the Foreign Secretary called him “gracious and generous”.