Culture Secretary says the incoming Trump administration will welcome 'robust' exchanges
Culture Secretary says the incoming Trump administration will welcome 'robust' exchangesDowning Street is braced for a dramatic shift in the special relationship once the president-elect is inaugurated next year, but Lisa Nandy said thehas always been important to the UK and US and has survived many changes of leader in both the UK and US.
“They expect us to stand up for Britain’s interests and they expect us to be clear about our values and they have no quarrel with that and that’s the sort of respectful relationship that we sought last time and that’s the kind of respectful relationship that we will seek in government.” The former Tory prime minister was forced to condemn Trump’s travel ban into the US from predominantly Muslim countries as “divisive and wrong”.in 2020, she wrote: “With Donald Trump, I never knew what to expect — from being offered, sometimes literally, the hand of friendship to hearing him question core tenets of the transatlantic alliance.
But Nandy said the Government “respected” that the American people had elected Trump, and was looking forward to having a “robust conversation”.
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