Asked by presenter Kay Burley if the ex-president had raised these descriptions of him, the Foreign Secretary said: “I’m not going to comment on the meeting.”But pressed on this issue, he added: “No he didn’t actually.”Questioned whether he had changed his view of Trump, Lord Cameron said: “Politicians we all know there is a track record of things that we have said about each other.But ultimately, Britain and America are important partners."
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00:00Let me talk to you about your role as Foreign Secretary if I may.
00:02What was it like meeting Donald Trump after some of the undiplomatic things you said about him?
00:08Well, I'm a diplomat, so it's different.
00:11Look, I'm glad that I had the meeting.
00:13It's, you know, very much in line with the work foreign secretaries and prime ministers do.
00:17We meet leaders of the opposition in other countries.
00:20We meet potential future presidents.
00:23I remember meeting Mitt Romney when I was prime minister.
00:25That's what the meeting was about.
00:28We were discussing a range of things like Israel and Gaza, like Ukraine, perhaps particularly Ukraine.
00:33It was a private meeting, so I'm not, I'm afraid, going to reveal...
00:35I'm not going to ask you. I'm just...
00:37The fact that you called him xenophobic, misogynistic, protectionist, stupid, wrong.
00:42Did he bring it up?
00:44I'm not going to comment on the meeting, but it was...
00:46He did, didn't he?
00:47No, he didn't, actually.
00:49We're going to go down that route.
00:51No, look, it was a good meeting.
00:52Any change of view?
00:53Look, I think we all...
00:55The politicians, we all know there's a track record of things we've said about each other,
00:59but ultimately Britain and America are important partners.
01:03We don't know who will be president after November.
01:06It's not for us to get involved.
01:08It's for the Americans to choose their president.
01:09We then work with them.