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David Lammy, the UK’s foreign secretary, has stated that his previous criticisms of US President-elect Donald Trump are “old news” and that he will find “common ground” with the new president. In 2018, Lammy had called Trump a “tyrant” and “a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath”. However, in his first interview since the election result, he told the BBC’s Newscast podcast that the pair could build a “relationship…in our national interest”.
Lammy praised Trump’s election campaign as “very well run”, and said that he had felt that a Trump presidency was possible. When challenged on previous remarks about the president-elect, Lammy said that they were “old news” and that almost all politicians had made critical comments about Trump in the past. He added that as foreign secretary, there were things he now knew which he had not known before.
Lamy was also asked about the impact of Trump’s proposed policies on UK trade. During the election campaign, Trump pledged to significantly increase taxes on foreign goods imported into the US, which would include billions of pounds worth of British exports. Lammy countered that the UK would seek to ensure that it was not in Trump’s “medium or long-term interests” to penalise his closest allies.
Lammy and Trump have already met, for dinner in New York in September. The foreign secretary said that Trump had not brought up his previous comments about him on that occasion, and that he believed that the UK and the US would “forge common interests” and solve areas of disunity in private
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