OPINION - The Standard View: David Lammy is right to dismiss Donald Trump criticisms as "old news"
Before David Lammy was the UK’s chief diplomat, he was a passionate opponent of Donald Trump. As a backbench MP in 2019, ahead of Trump’s state visit to Britain, Lammy posted on social media that the then (and soon to be) US president was "deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic" and "no friend of Britain".