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Downing Street may be making friendly overtures but the cabinet’s stomachs are in knots about the threats to the UK’s security and prosperity

Foreign Secretary David Lammy has previously been critical of the US president-elect.

The Lib Dem leader called the president-elect a ‘dangerous, destructive demagogue’ this week after US voters returned him to the White House.

Exclusive: Warning from a leading trade expert comes as new projections show tariffs imposed by Trump could shrnk the UK economy over the next three years and wipeout growth ahead of the next general election

Keir Starmer may well have gone to bed on Tuesday night hoping to wake up on Wednesday morning to find himself teamed professionally with Kamala Harris – a fellow state prosecutor of the centre-left who happens also to be the leader of both the free world and his country’s closest…

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…

Prime minister facing increasing divisions with Labour as he tries to build bridges with the president-elect, despite foreign secretary David Lammy calling him ‘a racist KKK and Nazi sympathiser’

Sir Richard Dearlove said the president-elect may put criticisms of him to one side because of his strong political mandate.

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British foreign secretary says many politicians have said ‘pretty ripe things’ about US president-elect

Foreign secretary David Lammy has dismissed his past criticism of Donald Trump in his first interview since the Republican’s election victory.