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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Christopher McKeon

‘I will be gracious’ to Donald Trump, says Foreign Secretary

David Lammy insisted he was looking forward to working with Donald Trump despite previously describing the incoming president as a ‘tyrant’ (Allison Robbert/AP) - (AP)

David Lammy has insisted he will be “gracious” to Donald Trump despite his previous comments disparaging the incoming US president.

As a backbench MP in 2018, Mr Lammy had described the then-president as a “tyrant” and a “woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath”.

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