Britain’s foreign secretary believes the US president-elect is in a forgiving mood over past taunts
Lammy, a former high-flying barrister-turned-politician, made the ungracious comment alongside a slew of others about Trump in 2018, yet he insists he still has the links with the US election winner’s team to get the job done. When they had dinner in September Trump even offered him a second helping of chicken, said Lammy this week as evidence that they now have a better relationship.
He excelled academically and went on to study a master’s degree in law at Harvard in the US, the first black Briton to do so. He switched to politics and was first elected to the House of Commons for Tottenham in a by-election in 2000, the youngest MP at the time at the age of 27. He was soon promoted to junior minister byIn opposition, he was best known as a social justice activist. So it was a surprise in Westminster when Starmer appointed him to his front bench as shadow foreign secretary.
Confronted this week with the comments on Newscast, Lammy said they were “old news ... There are things I know now that I didn’t know back then.” He said Trump had never mentioned them when he attended a two-and-a-half hour dinner with Trump and Starmer in New York in September. Trump was a “gracious host”, he said, as exemplified by his offer of extra chicken.
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