David Lammy tells US Republicans he can find ‘common cause’ with Trump

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David Lammy, the shadow foreign secretary, has set out in a Washington DC speech his credentials as a British foreign secretary capable of working with a Trump presidency, saying he “gets the agenda that drives America First”, and insisting he would seek to find “common cause” with Donald Trump. He vowed a Labour government “will always work with the United States, whatever the weather and whoever wins” and in government he said he would work in the national interest. Speaking at the Hudson Institute, a right-of-centre thinktank, Lammy also said Trump’s demands to see higher European defence spending had been...