How Foreign Secretary formed bond with Trump's running mate - and why president-elect got over those 'neo-Nazi sympathiser' tweets

Foreign Secretary who previously described president-elect as a ‘neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath’ says he can build relationship with him

When he was a backbench MP in 2018, David Lammy described Trump as a "tyrant" and "a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath". But in his first interview since Trump's victory, he told the BBC's Newscast podcast the president-elect was "someone that ...

Today, we speak to the Foreign Secretary David Lammy. Adam and Chris speak to him about the election of Donald Trump, whether he regrets calling him “deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic” and what the government’s approach to the new US government will be.

The President-elect wants to increase tariffs on goods imported from around the world by at least 10 per cent, rising to 60 per cent on goods from China.

Mr Lammy was further challenged in the interview about comments he made about Mr Trump before becoming foreign secretary. In the same article in 2018, the Tottenham MP said that h