The Secretary of State's earlier feedback about Donald Trump, raised throughout PMQs at present, could possibly be an indication of issues to return.
Many members of Sir Keir Starmer's prime staff mentioned slightly impolite issues concerning the new president-elect throughout his final go to to the White Home, a interval that largely coincided with Jeremy Corbyn main the Labor Get together.
Here’s what some distinguished ministers have mentioned beforehand:
Sir Keir Starmer
The prime minister declared himself “anti-Trump however pro-American” as just lately as 2021, when he was opposition chief and Joe Biden was president.
And simply final yr right here he made an unflattering comparability between Trump and the Tories, saying the then-ruling social gathering was “performing increasingly like Donald Trump.”
“It’s all woke, woke, woke. Wedge, wedge, wedge. Share, share, share.”
David Lammy
Of all of the Labor topbenches, the International Secretary's feedback stands out as the most embarrassing in the meanwhile – regardless of David Lammy having labored laborious in latest months to construct a working relationship with Group Trump.
A dinner between Starmer, Lammy and Trump at Trump Tower in September this yr reportedly went fairly effectively.
That's an excellent factor, as a result of in 2017 Lammy referred to as Trump a “racist and KKK/neo-Nazi sympathizer.”
He additionally described it as a “vital risk to the worldwide order.”
Angela Rayner
In the course of the Capitol riots in January 2021, when Trump supporters tried to stop the election of Joe Biden, the now-deputy prime minister mentioned that Republicans who had supported Trump had “blood on their fingers.”
“I’m so pleased to see the again of Donald Trump,” she mentioned at Biden’s inauguration later this month.
Wes Streeting
In 2017, the present Secretary of Well being and Human Companies got here dangerously near quoting Buzz Lightyear when he described Trump as a “vile, unhappy little man.”
“Think about being proud to have that as your president,” he added.
Ed Miliband
Again in November 2016, when Trump was first elected president, the previous Labor chief mentioned he was a “grabber” and a “racist”.
Miliband, now power and web zero minister, expressed concern about Trump's local weather skepticism, his angle in direction of Russia and his desire for commerce tariffs.
All three stay a priority eight years later.