Streeting has publicly criticized Trump on a number of occasions. “He’s had a fair number of times, particularly as an opposition politician, where he used condemnatory language about Trump, and in government he’s had to be more judicious,” notes Johnson.
In 2017, during Trump’s first term in the White House, he said: “Trump is such an odious, sad, little man. Imagine being proud to have that as your President.”
When the President traveled to the U.K. for a state visit in 2019, Streeting supported London Mayor Sadiq Khan and others in arguing that Trump should not have been welcomed by the Conservative government.
“The far-right is on the rise around the world, threatening our hard-won rights, freedoms, and values,” he said, insisting that Khan was “standing up for Londoners and the country by saying that we shouldn’t be rolling out the red carpet for President Trump. He is not a friend.”
Last year, when asked about his previous remarks, Streeting said his responsibility is “delivering Britain’s national interest” and emphasized the “relationship between the President and the Prime Minister, at any given time, really matters” whatever the “political differences” at play.
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