Labour’s Minister of State for North America Wanted to Prevent “Racist, Liar” Trump From UK Visit
Starmer continues to peddle the line that Trump trying to sue the Labour party won’t affect his relationship with the former President, though his cabinet’s past (and very public) disdain for Trump doesn’t exactly bode well for the special relationship if Trump does get in to the White House. Nor will having Labour MP Stephen Doughty as the Minister for North America…
Doughty has never hidden his feelings on Trump. In an interview with the BBC, he labelled Trump as “racist, incompetent or both” and in 2019, branded him a “racist, sexist, divisive and a liar”, “offensive to civilised values” and that Trump “represents the very worst of the world”. Tell us how you really feel…
The Minister for North America also sponsored not one, but two Early Day Motions against Trump when he was President. First in 2017, sponsoring an EDM to stop Trump from speaking in Westminster Hall, and in 2019, he sponsored an EDM to rescind the offer of a state visit to Trump. If Trump does win as many polls suggest, it may make for awkward small talk if Doughty is shipped out to American soil in this role…
