Starmer congratulated Trump this morning: “As the closest of allies, we stand shoulder to shoulder in defence of our shared values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.” David Lammy wrote a congratulatory tweet of his own and said “We look forward to working with you and JD Vance in the years ahead.” Trump may take a dim view of that considering what the frontbench has said about him before…
- 2016: Ed Miliband called Trump a “racist” and “misogynist”.
- 2017: Yvette Cooper joined a women’s march to “take a stand against Donald Trump”.
- 2017: Starmer’s wife Victoria was pictured at the same anti-Trump march, pictured with a “down with Trump” sign.
- 2017: David Lammy branded Trump “incompetent” and a “troll”.
- 2017: Wes Streeting wrote a Guardian article titled “Labour must not allow Trump’s ugly populism to blight the UK”.
- 2018: Lammy called Trump a “neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath”.
- 2018: Miliband castigated Trump’s “racist attacks”, “his lies” and “his admiration for dictators”.
- 2019: Lammy said “Trump will be memorialised as a fragile, bigoted and cowardly disgrace”.
- 2019: Starmer says “An endorsement from Donald Trump tells you everything you need to know about what is wrong with Boris Johnson’s politics and why he isn’t fit to be Prime Minister.“
- 2019: Sadiq Khan said Trump’s language is like that of “the fascists of the 20th century.”
- 2020: Starmer attacked Dominic Cummings for using the “tactics of Donald Trump.“
- 2020: Starmer said Trump is not the man “to lead the world” during Coronavirus.
- 2021: Lammy said “Good riddance Donald. The world is relieved to see the back of you”.
- 2021: Starmer accused Boris of being “Britain’s Trump.”
- 2021: Rayner said “the violence that Trump has unleashed is terrifying”.
- 2023: Starmer raged at Tories for behaving “more and more like Donald Trump.”
- 2024: Khan said Trump is “a racist. He’s a sexist. He’s a homophobe.”
- 2024: Immigration minister Angela Eagle accused Donald Trump of fuelling “overt racism” in the UK.
