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Foreign secretary dismisses past criticism of Donald Trump in first interview since Republican’s victory
The Independent
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11/8/2024
Lammy dismisses past criticism of Trump as 'old news'Source: BBC
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To put one more quote to you from Time magazine in 2018 and you said Trump is
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not only a woman-hating neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath, he is also a
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profound threat to the international order that has been the foundation of
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Western progress for so long. And I put it to you, you are now the UK's chief
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diplomat. This back catalogue of quotes matters doesn't it? Because if he takes,
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if he decides at some point in the future to weaponise these, to throw them
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back at you and therefore to the UK, that's to our detriment isn't it? He
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didn't seem to think it mattered a few weeks ago. But he might change his mind.
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I don't know, come on. I think, I think that the truth is when you're doing this
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job you understand the extent and breadth of the US-UK relationship. There
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are 11,000 troops, US troops, in this country. There are tens of thousands of
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US troops across Europe. We have the closest of intelligence capabilities, the
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best in the world, on demonstration before the Ukraine war, working
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effectively to keep the skies safe over Israel just a few weeks ago. So anyone
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who heads up America, or indeed our country, understands that. He understands
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that because he's done the job of being president before. And in the end he's
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finding common ground, just as I'm finding common ground. You don't get to
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be a senior politician in our country unless you can find common ground. And I
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might just say to you, with David Cameron as a leading Tory, he asked me to do his
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review. With Theresa May, even with Liz Trust as my opponent, you know Chris, that
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I'm well known in Westminster. I get along with folk. I just do. It doesn't
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mean you don't have sharp backs. You might want to get along with him, but maybe he doesn't want to get along with you.
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You might want to get along with folk, even people who have different politics to you.
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