Before David Lammy was the UK’s chief diplomat, he was a passionate opponent of Donald Trump. As a backbench MP in 2019, ahead of Trump’s state visit to Britain, Lammy posted on social media that the then (and soon to be) US president was "deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic" and "no friend of Britain".
In other times, this might disqualify him to be Foreign Secretary. Indeed, new Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch sought to highlight Lammy’s comments at her first Prime Minister’s Question on Wednesday. Yet Lammy may in fact be right when he dismisses these comments as “old news”.
