David Lammy has refused to say whether he was wrong about Donald Trump, after previously calling the former US president a “neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath”.
The Foreign Secretary said Trump had the “thickest of skins” after he was challenged over comments he made as a backbench MP in 2018 and if it could affect UK-US relations if the Republican nominee wins November’s presidential election.
Mr Lammy told BBC Breakfast: “Donald Trump is the biggest, in many ways, of political characters we have at this point on the planet.
