Pat McFadden MP downplays Foreign Sec David Lammy's previous comments about Donald Trump. Speaking on Sky News, he said that the friendship between the UK and USA is 'really important' adding that 'it's in our national interest' to maintain it.
A Cabinet minister repeatedly dodged over whether Donald Trump has 'Neo-Nazi sympathies' today as Labour grapples with the Republican's huge election win.
But Sir Keir is facing a huge challenge as Tories demand he apologises for attacks on Mr Trump by senior Labour figures. The minister refused to give a direct answer twice more, insisting: 'I don't want to get into all the characteristics of people… what I think is important is this friendship between the two countries.'
'Look, a lot of people said things about Trump, not least his vice president, who mused whether Trump would be another Richard Nixon or America's Hitler,' he said. Mr Trump is threatening huge tariffs on global imports to America, but had pledged to do a Transatlantic free trade deal with the UK when he was last in power.
'The Prime Minister offered his hearty congratulations and said he looked forward to working closely with President-elect Trump across all areas of the special relationship,' the readout said. 'An entitlement to power totally unchecked by any sense of service or responsibility - that's the cultural stain that runs through the modern Conservative Party.'
'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.'
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