The new Business and Trade Secretary Peter Kyle is in DC today for talks with the US administration ahead of Trump’s state visit to the UK in ten days. Kyle comes with recent views on Trump…
- 2017: “People like Trump only divide, never unite, even in opposition.”
- 2020: “Right to the bitter end Trump serves the interests of one country and one contry alone: Russia. He’s slavishly undermining the foundational institutions of American democracy and in so doing weakening the power of democracy everywhere. He’s lost. Let the rebuilding begin!”
- 2020: “Trump’s political career began with the racist ‘birther’ campaign and ends with a Black woman in the White House.”
- 2021: “It’s the last night I’ll go to sleep knowing Donald Trump is the U.S. president. Tomorrow the world will become a safer, more hopeful place. #SweetDreams”
- 2021: “History was always going to be the best judge of Trump and his snivelling acolytes.”
Kyle, who left school “without any usable qualifications” and has never run a business, will have to overcome his strong feelings in DC today. He has spent the summer claiming Nigel Farage sides with Jimmy Savile. Then he’s off to China to manage that delicate relationship…