'Not a fan': what UK politicians have said about Donald Trump before - and now

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

78% : After the result, Swinney tweeted his congratulations to Trump and pledged to "stand fast in support of our values of fairness, democracy and equality - ideals that America was built upon".
72% : However, on Wednesday she congratulated Trump on his "historic election victory"Badenoch is on the record about being a fan of Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida and scourge of woke causes, having met him as trade secretary.
63% : On Wednesday he tweeted congratulations to Trump, saying: "The UK has no greater friend than the US, with the special relationship being cherished on both sides of the Atlantic for more than 80 years.
57% : Speaking in 2019, when she was shadow foreign secretary, the Labour MP argued that Trump should not have been granted a state visit to the UK: "A state visit is an honour, and we don't think that this president deserves an honour," she said.
54% : "Now he is foreign secretary, Lammy has sought to build bridges, and joined Starmer at the dinner with Trump in New York.
41% : "Last month, when Trump's team complained about Labour volunteers campaigning for the Democrats, Starmer told reporters that having met Trump in New York in September, the pair "established a good relationship".
34% : In an interview this week, he told the Telegraph that he had "never gone along with the stolen election narrative" and that if Trump lost the current election he should accept this and "go and play golf at Turnberry".
31% : Even as opposition leader, Starmer rarely criticised Trump directly, and his most recent mention of him in the Commons was to wish him a quick recovery after the assassination attempt in July.
27% : In 2018, the then-backbench Labour MP wrote: "Trump is not only a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath.
26% : "The new Conservative leader has spoken little of Trump, and unlike Robert Jenrick, her opponent in the party's recent contest, did not say she would back him if she was American.
20% : Asked by the BBC on Wednesday if she still believed Trump was a "racist sexual predator", Thornberry, who now chairs the foreign affairs select committee, said: "Well, he is.
14% : Trump has in turn attacked Khan - something the mayor has linked to subsequent upsurges in racist abuse and threats he faces.

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