Donald Trump will dismiss Keir Starmer as a ‘lightweight woke leftist’ and a ‘newcomer’ in the negotiations, warns top US analyst who says the Prime Minister should now fire David Lammy
KEIR STARMER
Last year Sir Keir compared the Conservative Party to Trump when he accused the Tories of being far from Churchillian values.
‘Is there anyone in the government who feels obligated to do anything other than his own self-interest? Towards democracy, the rule of law, that serves our country?’ he asked during a speech in Buckinghamshire.
“A right to power completely unconstrained by any sense of service or responsibility – that is the cultural stain that runs through the modern Conservative Party.”
He added: “These are not Churchill’s Tories anymore. In any case, they are behaving more and more like Donald Trump. They look at the politics of America and want to bring that here.
‘It’s all awake, awake, awake. Wedge, wedge, wedge. Divide, divide, divide.’
In June, the Prime Minister said after the conviction of Trump’s hush money trial that it was an ‘unprecedented situation’.
“We will work with whoever is elected president… that’s what you would expect,” Sir Keir said.
“We have a special relationship with the US that goes beyond whoever the president is, but it’s an unprecedented situation, there’s no doubt about that.”
Ahead of this year’s US presidential election, Sir Keir claimed the government will work with whoever becomes president.
FOREIGN SECRETARY DAVID LAMMY
In 2017, Mr. Lammy called Mr. Trump a “racist and KKK/neo-Nazi sympathizer.”
A year later, the Tottenham MP wrote in Time magazine that he would protest the “capitulation of the then government to this tyrant in a toupee,” referring to Trump’s first official visit to Britain.
“Trump is not only a misogynistic, neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath,” Mr. Lammy wrote, “he is also a serious threat to the international order that has for so long been the basis of Western progress.”
Asked about his previous comments earlier this year, Mr Lammy said: “Where I can find common purpose with Donald Trump, I will find common purpose.”
He congratulated Mr. Trump on Wednesday morning, saying, “We look forward to working with you and @JDVance for years to come.”
Deputy Prime Minister ANGELA RAYNER
Ms. Rayner has publicly criticized Mr. Trump more than once in posts on X, formerly Twitter.
On the day of the 2021 Capitol Hill riots, she tweeted: “The violence Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.”
Later in January that year, Ms. Rayner said of Joe Biden’s inauguration as president, “I’m so happy to see the back of Donald Trump, but even more so to see @KamalaHarris as vice president.”
HEALTH SECRETARY WES STREETING
In 2017, Streeting called Trump an “odious, sad little man” in a post on X.
“Imagine being proud to be president,” he added.
When asked about the social media post on Tuesday, the Health Secretary told Good Morning Britain: ‘The Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary have worked hard to build a relationship with President Trump and his team so that in the event he is elected president If we are the next president of the United States, we will begin the strong working relationship that is in our national interest and also in the interest of the United States.”
ENERGY SECRETARY ED MILIBAND
Miliband labeled Trump a “groper” and a “racist” in November 2016.
“The idea that we have shared values with a racist, misogynistic, self-confessed groper defies all expectations,” Miliband told the BBC.
“And I think we should be very concerned about the impact on many of the things we care about. Tackling climate change – he says it was invented by the Chinese; climate change is a hoax. His attitude towards Russia.
‘And then this fantasy about trade. I mean, this guy is anti-trade. His is a strange combination of protectionism and the old trickle-down formula that got us into this mess in the first place.”