Deputy PM Angela Rayner risks damaging UK-US relations after once labelling Donald Trump a ‘buffoon’

ANGELA Rayner has risked damaging relations with the US aft labelling Donald Trump a “buffoon”.

The Deputy PM besides said helium has “no spot successful the White House”.

Last nighttime Ms Rayner tried to enactment the comments down her arsenic she spoke with Vice President-elect JD Vance.

But they adhd to those made by Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who has been captious of the adjacent US leader.

In a TV rant during the pandemic, Ms Rayner had questioned Covid measures taken by some UK and US governments.

She told ITV: “We’ve got the highest decease rates successful Europe and Trump is sidesplitting thousands of Americans by giving them duff proposal and his macho, ‘I’m each right, I survived Covid’.

“He’s an implicit buffoon. He has nary spot successful the White House. He’s an embarrassment.”

Ex-Foreign Office Minister Tobias Ellwood said past night: “America has voted to elite idiosyncratic astir everyone has a beardown presumption about. But we person a work to enactment with America.”

Ms Rayner spoke to Mr Vance hours aft Trump’s win.

She said: “We spoke astir our plans for the aboriginal and however we physique connected the peculiar narration betwixt our countries.”

Tory person Kemi Badenoch has demanded Sir Keir Starmer apologise aft Mr Lammy called Trump a “Neo-Nazi sympathiser” successful 2017.

But Cabinet Minister Pat McFadden insisted the peculiar narration was “much much important” than aged remarks.