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,
Former Conservative MP Steve Baker launched a scathing attack on David Lammy, branding him "the most ridiculous Foreign Secretary we've ever had" over his dramatic shift in stance towards Donald Trump.
The Foreign Secretary has attempted to woo Donald Trump before his inauguration as the next President of the United States.
The Foreign Secretary responded to reports that the Trump administration could reject the Labour grandee as ambassador to the US.
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.
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”.
In a gushing interview, Foreign Secretary David Lammy heaped praise on Donald Trump - who he previously branded a 'woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath'
Foreign Secretary showers praise upon president-elect after previously calling him a ‘sociopath’ amid efforts to secure a trade deal
Dear, oh dear. Will David Lammy never get it right? This morning he told the Today programme that Donald Trump is ‘funny, friendly and warm’, that he has ‘incredible grace’ and that he is full
David Lammy used to be an arch-critic of Donald Trump. Can he deal with the new Administration and reset the U.K.’s relationship with the E.U. at the same time?
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.