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Donald Trump will view Keir Starmer as a 'lightweight woke lefty' and will not trust him, a top US analyst has warned.
But he could start by sacking his foreign secretary David Lammy, who has called the President-elect a 'serial liar' and a 'wannabe despot' in the past. Read More Desperate Keir Starmer congratulates Donald Trump in first call after election in bid to repair ties And after Mr Trump's surprise landslide against Ms Harris, the Prime Minister has talked about how 'crucial' a strong US / UK relationship is.
The same dynamic will play out with regards to Israeli attacks on Iran which Labour are more cautious about. 'Mr Trump will view Starmer as lightweight and as a novice on the international stage,' Mr Gardiner said.But the biggest divide may well be the more than 100 Labour activists who flew to the US to campaign on behalf of Ms Harris.
Tim Murtaugh, Team Trump's communications chief, told the Daily Mail that the key moment came in closing hours of the race, when Trump donned an apron and manned the fry station at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania last month . In a highly unusual step, the PM's press secretary committed to leaving David Lammy as Foreign Secretary until the end of the Parliament
Among the barbs directed at Mr Trump by Mr Lammy on social media include the quip: 'If Trump did GCSEs he wouldn't make it to sixth form.' 'But I'm in no doubt that it will be practically impossible for Sir Keir to work with the Trump Presidency'. He added: 'These aren't Churchill's Tories any more. If anything they behave more and more like Donald Trump. They look at the politics of America and they want to bring that here.In June, the prime minister said following Mr Trump's hush money trial conviction that it was an 'unprecedented situation'.'We have a special relationship with the US that transcends whoever the president is, but it is an unprecedented situation, there is no doubt about that.
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'.
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