Donald Trump and Pat McFadden
Cabinet office minister Pat McFadden refused three times to deny that Donald Trump has KKK or Nazi sympathies this morning.
The Republican’s re-election to the White House has triggered old, anti-Trump remarks from current Labour ministers to resurface.
Foreign secretary David Lammy’s previous comments have come under particular scrutiny – he once called Trump a “neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath” and “a racist KKK and Nazi sympathiser”.
So on LBC this morning, presenter Nick Ferrari asked McFadden: “Do you think Donald Trump has KKK sympathies or Nazi sympathies?”
The minister replied: “I think the........