Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
The foreign secretary has come under fire about his previous comments since Trump was re-elected US president this week.
On the BBC’s Newscast podcast, the broadcaster’ political editor Chris Mason said: “April 2019 you said ‘deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic, Donald Trump is no friend of Britain’.Lammy said his past comments were “not even vaguely” mentioned when he and Keir Starmer had dinner with Trump in New York in September.Lammy on Trump in 2019: deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic.But Mason told him: “I put it to you, you are now the UK’s chief diplomat.
“There are 11,000 US troops in this country. There are tens of thousands of US troops across Europe. We have the closest of intelligence capabilities, the best in the world, on demonstration before the Ukraine war, working effectively to keep the skies safe over Israel just a few weeks ago.
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