Lammy insists Trump bears no grudge over 'neo-Nazi sympathiser' jibe

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60% : The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary met Trump for dinner in New York in September.
51% : Looking uncomfortable as he shifted in his chair and tapped his hands on his thighs, Mr Lammy said: 'He didn't seem to think it mattered a few weeks ago.'He added: 'And in the end he [Trump] is finding common ground just as I'm finding common ground.'Mr Lammy added that Trump was 'someone that we can build a relationship with in our national interest' and praised his election campaign as 'very well run'.'I felt in my bones that there could be a Trump presidency,' he added.
50% : On the day of the Capitol Hill riots in 2021, she tweeted: 'The violence that Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.'Later in January that year, Ms Rayner said of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president: 'I am so happy to see the back of Donald Trump, but even more so to see @KamalaHarris as VP.'HEALTH SECRETARY WES STREETINGIn 2017, Mr Streeting called Trump an 'odious, sad little man' in a post on X.'Imagine being proud to have that as your president,' he added.
48% : 'Trump is not only a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath,' Mr Lammy wrote, 'he is also a profound threat to the international order that has been the foundation of Western progress for so long.'Asked about his past comments earlier this year, Mr Lammy said: 'Where I can find common cause with Donald Trump, I will find common cause'.He offered his congratulations to Mr Trump on Wednesday morning, saying: 'We look forward to working with you and @JDVance in the years ahead.'DEPUTY PM ANGELA RAYNERMs Rayner has publicly criticised Mr Trump more than once in posts on X, formerly Twitter.
44% : Branding them 'old news' he told the broadcaster's Newscast podcast that he believes he can find 'common ground' with Trump, pointing out his Tory predecessor Lord Cameron 'had some pretty ripe things to say' about the president-elect.
44% : The BBC's political editor Chris Mason told Mr Lammy his back catalogue of quotes mattered as Trump could in the future decide to 'weaponise these' and that's to 'our [the UK's] detriment'.
41% : But he brushed it off as he made reference to a dinner he and the Prime Minister had with Trump in New York in September.
39% : When asked if his past comments had been brought up when he met Trump for dinner, Mr Lammy said 'not even vaguely'.
28% : And he suggested he had come away from the meeting with 'a hunch' Trump would beat Kamala Harris to return to the White House.
21% : Foreign Secretary David Lammy has refused to back down on previously calling Donald Trump a 'neo-Nazi sympathiser'Donald Trump is pictured at an election night watch party on Wednesday, November 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, FloridaThe Foreign Secretary has come under intense scrutiny for comments he made in 2018 when he described Trump as aAmong the other barbs directed at Trump by Mr Lammy on social media include the quip: 'If Trump did GCSEs he wouldn't make it to sixth form.'
20% : Mr Lammy and PM Sir Keir Starmer met Trump in New York after the UK general election, and Mr Lammy said his past attacks had not even been raised.
20% : Did the Foreign Secretary take that opportunity to apologise for making derogatory and scatological references, including, and I quote, 'Trump is not only a woman-hating Neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath, he is also a profound threat to the international order', and if he did not apologise, will the Prime Minister do so now on his behalf?'A 'Neo-Nazi sympathiser' and a 'sad little man': The rash comments about Trump that Labour ministers are trying to forgetKEIR STARMERLast year, Sir Keir compared the Conservative Party with Mr Trump as he accused the Tories of falling far from Churchillian values.

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