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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Pippa Crerar Political editor

Starmer will not be swayed by Trump’s ‘small and petty’ insults, says Lammy

David Lammy posing with a smile in a conference hall
David Lammy at a conference of global progressives in Barcelona, Spain. He said the war in Iran had made things ‘worse, not better’. Photograph: Jordi Matas/The Guardian

Donald Trump’s insults towards Keir Starmer are “small and petty” and designed to put pressure on the prime minister to change his position on Iran, David Lammy has said, as he insisted the UK would not get dragged into the conflict.

The deputy prime minister argued the US president should be able to “disagree agreeably” with allies rather than publishing attacks on social media, and that US actions had “made things worse, not better” as far as global instability was concerned.

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