Lammy dismisses past criticism of Trump as 'old news'Source: BBC
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00:00To put one more quote to you from Time magazine in 2018 and you said Trump is
00:04not only a woman-hating neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath, he is also a
00:08profound threat to the international order that has been the foundation of
00:11Western progress for so long. And I put it to you, you are now the UK's chief
00:16diplomat. This back catalogue of quotes matters doesn't it? Because if he takes,
00:21if he decides at some point in the future to weaponise these, to throw them
00:24back at you and therefore to the UK, that's to our detriment isn't it? He
00:30didn't seem to think it mattered a few weeks ago. But he might change his mind.
00:34I don't know, come on. I think, I think that the truth is when you're doing this
00:42job you understand the extent and breadth of the US-UK relationship. There
00:49are 11,000 troops, US troops, in this country. There are tens of thousands of
00:56US troops across Europe. We have the closest of intelligence capabilities, the
01:02best in the world, on demonstration before the Ukraine war, working
01:07effectively to keep the skies safe over Israel just a few weeks ago. So anyone
01:21who heads up America, or indeed our country, understands that. He understands
01:26that because he's done the job of being president before. And in the end he's
01:31finding common ground, just as I'm finding common ground. You don't get to
01:35be a senior politician in our country unless you can find common ground. And I
01:40might just say to you, with David Cameron as a leading Tory, he asked me to do his
01:47review. With Theresa May, even with Liz Trust as my opponent, you know Chris, that
01:53I'm well known in Westminster. I get along with folk. I just do. It doesn't
01:58mean you don't have sharp backs. You might want to get along with him, but maybe he doesn't want to get along with you.
02:02You might want to get along with folk, even people who have different politics to you.