The foreign secretary has dismissed his previous criticism of Donald Trump as "old news" and insisted he would be able to find "common ground" with the president-elect. When he was a backbench MP in 2018, David Lammy described Trump as a "tyrant" and "a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath".

Foreign secretary David Lammy has dismissed his past criticism of Donald Trump in his first interview since the Republican’s election victory. Mr Lammy previously described the president-elect as a “woman-hating,

David Lammy dismisses his criticism of Donald Trump as 'dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic' as 'old news' - Foreign Secretary who previously described president-elect as a ‘neo-Nazi sympathising soci