UK will be 'friend and ally' of Donald Trump's America, says key Starmer ally brushing aside moral questions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Asked about how Trump may respond to the comments by now Labour Cabinet ministers, Mr McFadden told Sky News: "He can look past these things.
56% : "I don't think any of these things will interfere in what is such an important alliance for the world based on defence, security, shared values, shared history..."President elect Trump is a fan of the United Kingdom, his mother came from Scotland.
47% : Mr McFadden highlighted that JD Vance had compared Trump to Hitler and was now set to be his vice president and that billionaire Elon Musk, now a major Trump supporter, had previously suggested he should "sail into the sunset".
39% : Sir Keir spoke on Wednesday night to Trump, who will be the first US president who is also a convicted criminal, and appears set to have great power with the Republicans also having control over the House of Representatives, Senate, and a Republican-leaning majority in the Supreme Court.
34% : With Trump threatening to impose hefty tariffs on imports, and the UK's growth forecasts already being downgraded by some institutions, Mr McFadden argued that people should wait to see what the new US president does rather than just take "fiery" election talk as what is set to happen.
26% : "He later dodged questions on LBC Radio about whether Trump, who has faced a series of court cases, had "Nazi" or "KKK" sympathies.
19% : He also argued that Trump would forgive withering criticism of him by a series of Labour politicians including now Foreign Secretary David Lammy who tweeted in 2018 that the US property tycoon was a "woman-hating Neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath".

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