Miriam Cates has joined the ranks of backbench Tory MPs expressing support for Donald Trump. She thinks the world was a “safer place” when Trump was US president, saying people were too down on him. “I don’t think he was a dreadful president last time. In fact, some of the calls he made on China and Iran, for example, were absolutely the right calls,” she told The House magazine over the weekend. Is a pattern emerging?
Fellow MP Jake Berry also said recently that Trump was a “much better president than Biden,” and to “bring him back”. Andrea Jenkyns told Sky News she’d like to see a return of Boris Johnson and Donald Trump, who she has christened as “the dynamic duo”. Jacob Rees-Mogg has endorsed the ex president, saying he’d “rather have Donald Trump than President Biden”. Cates does not go as far, and admits “some of the language he uses and the arguments he engages with now could be pretty destructive”. Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall encouraged Trump to win, so that he could "wipe the smile of [sic]" Mayor Sadiq Khan's face. Outward support for Trump's re-election has not yet made its way to the frontbenches. Perhaps they are waiting to see the verdict on his 91 felony counts.
