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Sir Keir Starmer has defended his international secretary David Lammy, who prior to now known as Donald Trump a “neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath”.
Mr Lammy will stay in his put up till the following election, Downing Avenue stated on Wednesday simply hours after Mr Trump’s victory was secured.
The vote of confidence got here after the prime minister was requested to apologise for his frontbencher’s assault in an article written when he was a backbench MP in 2018.
A yr earlier Mr Lammy additionally tweeted: “Sure, if Trump involves the UK I can be out protesting on the streets. He’s a racist KKK and Nazi sympathiser.”
Mr Lammy has sought to construct hyperlinks with the Trump regime since turning into international secretary, however the election consequence has shone a brand new highlight on his feedback, prompting questions on his capability to work with the following US president.
In the identical article in 2018, the Tottenham MP wrote about Mr Trump’s first official go to to the UK, saying that he can be protesting towards the then-government’s “capitulation to this tyrant in a toupee”.
“Trump is just not solely a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath,” he wrote, “he’s additionally a profound risk to the worldwide order that has been the inspiration of Western progress for therefore lengthy.”
The prime minister got here beneath strain over the feedback at Prime Minister’s Questions within the Commons from the brand new Tory chief Kemi Badenoch.
Referring to a dinner between the PM, Mr Lammy and Mr Trump in September, she requested: “Did the international secretary take that chance to apologise for making derogatory and scatological references, together with, and I quote, ‘Trump is just not solely a woman-hating Neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath, he’s additionally a profound risk to the worldwide order’, and if he didn’t apologise, will the prime minister accomplish that now on his behalf?”
Sir Keir dodged the query, saying that the assembly had been “very constructive”.
Earlier this yr Mr Lammy defended calling Mr Trump a neo-Nazi sociopath, saying all politicians had one thing to say about him “again within the day”.
He additionally stated he had met Mr Trump’s vice-president JD Vance and that the 2 males had “frequent floor”.
“We’re each from poor backgrounds, each suffered from habit points in our household which we’ve written about… each of us [are] Christians. And now I’ve met him on just a few events, and we now have been capable of finding frequent floor and get on,” he stated.
Sir Keir opened PMQs by congratulating the president-elect on his victory.
He added: “Because the closest of allies, the UK and US will proceed to work collectively to guard our shared values of freedom and democracy.
“And having had dinner with president-elect Trump just some weeks in the past, I stay up for working with him within the years to return.”
