As the government ‘consider’ inviting Donald Trump for a state visit, the president-elect was top of the agenda at today’s Foreign Office questions. With the Westminster establishment riled over Trump’s latest tweet claiming Nigel Farage would make a ‘great’ UK ambassador to the US, Simon Burns hit back — suggesting Boris Johnson return the favour and request Trump send Hillary Clinton to fill the role of US ambassador to the UK.
Continuing the theme of putting people forward against their will for jobs that either aren’t available or don’t exist, Labour’s David Winnick said that it was Brandon Dixon — the Hamilton actor who made an anti-Trump speech over the weekend — who ought to become the ‘unofficial ambassador’ from the United States to Britain. After a fruitless five minutes, Boris Johnson was left concurring with Daniel Poulter that diplomats require diplomacy — not inflammatory views.
It was then the turn of Alex Salmond to lay into the Foreign Secretary for looking on the bright side over Trump’s election.
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