Watch: David Lammy refuses to apologise for calling Trump a ‘sociopath’

David Lammy is in the firing line over comments he made in the past about Donald Trump. The Foreign Secretary was quizzed this morning on BBC Breakfast about his past attacks on the presidential candidate – particularly when Lammy called Trump a ‘neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath’. What a charmer…

Instead of showing contrition, the Foreign Secretary opted to go on the defensive – telling presenter Naga Munchetty: ‘You’re going to struggle to find any politician who has not had things to say about Donald Trump in his first term.’

He went on:

You would have struggled with our last foreign secretary David Cameron, who described him as a xenophobe and a misogynist. You would struggle with the vice-presidential candidate that he selected, who has also had things to say.

He didn’t quite answer the question, however. When pressed further by his interviewer, Lammy still refused to concede. ‘Do you think that sets a good tone for our foreign secretary and, potentially, the President of the United States?’ Munchetty asked Lammy again.