A little more than five hours after Fox News called Pennsylvania for Donald Trump at 6:47am London time, signalling that the 45th US president would also be the 47th, Kemi Badenoch made her debut at PMQs – and sought immediately to embarrass Keir Starmer by asking if he would apologise for David Lammy’s description of Trump in 2018 as a “neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath”.
This was pure political theatre. The government does indeed have ground to make up with the president-elect – whose campaign lawyers sent a six-page letter to the US Federal Election Commission on October 21, demanding an urgent investigation into “blatant foreign interference in the 2024 Presidential Election” by Labour activists sent to campaign for Kamala Harris in battleground states.
