By admin 
The Secretary of State’s previous comments on Donald Trump’s question during today’s PMQs may be a sign of things to come.
Many in Sir Keir Starmer’s top team said some rather unwelcome things about the new president-elect the last time he was in the White House, a period that largely coincided with Jeremy Corbyn’s time leading Labour.
Here’s what some prominent ministers have said before:
Lord Keir Starmer
The prime minister only declared himself “anti-Trump but pro-American” in 2021, when he was leader of the opposition and Joe Biden was president.
And last year he made an unflattering comparison here between Trump and the Tories, saying the then governing party was behaving “more and more like Donald Trump.”
‘It’s all awake, awake, awake. Wedge, wedge, wedge. Divide, divide, divide.”
David Lammy
Of all the Labor front benches, it is the Foreign Secretary’s comments that are now likely to be the most uncomfortable – although it should be noted that David Lammy has worked hard to build a working relationship with Team Trump in recent months.
Last September alone, a dinner between Starmer, Lammy and Trump in Trump Tower reportedly went quite well.
A good thing too, because Lammy called Trump a “racist and KKK/neo-Nazi sympathizer” in 2017.
He also describes him as a “profound threat to the international order.”
Angela Rayner
During the riots at the Capitol in January 2021, when Trump supporters tried to stop the election of Joe Biden, the now deputy prime minister said that the Republicans who had supported Trump “have blood on their hands.”
“I’m so happy to see the back of Donald Trump,” she said as Biden’s inauguration took place later that month.
Wes Straating
In 2017, the current Secretary of Health came dangerously close to quoting Buzz Lightyear when he described Trump as an “odious, sad little man.”
“Imagine being proud to be president,” he added.
Ed Miliband
In November 2016, when Trump was first elected president, the former Labor leader said he was a “groper” and “racist.”
Miliband, now energy and net zero minister, expressed concern about Trump’s climate skepticism, his attitude toward Russia and his penchant for trade tariffs.
All three continue to cause concern eight years later.