Donald Trump is back. Later today, Trump will once again take the oath of office and be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. A host of UK politicians are in Washington D. C. to watch the spectacle including Trump’s friend Nigel Farage, former prime ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, shadow foreign secretary Priti Patel and former home secretary Suella Braverman along with her husband Rael (now a Reform supporter). However, one politician who will be missing from the festivities is David Lammy – the Foreign Secretary is not making the trip.
A small group of ministers have been meeting to discuss what Trump means for the government’s plans
Instead, Lammy is in the Middle East – where he has embarked on a morning broadcast round whereby he praised Trump on the Today programme (a far cry from his 2018 approach of branding Trump a ‘neo-Nazi sympathizing sociopath’).
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