Ed Davey calls Trump 'dangerous, destructive demagogue' in furious attack on new president

Reacting to quality of Trump’s triumph successful the US statesmanlike contention implicit Kamala Harris, Sir Ed spoke of his interest that the world’s largest system would beryllium led by a “dangerous, destructive demagogue.”

“The adjacent President of the United States is simply a antheral who actively undermines the regularisation of law, quality rights, planetary trade, clime enactment and planetary security,” Sir Ed said.

“Millions of Americans – particularly women and minorities – volition beryllium incredibly fearful astir what comes next. We basal with them.

“Families crossed the UK volition besides beryllium worrying astir the harm Trump volition bash to our system and our nationalist security, fixed his grounds of starting commercialized wars, undermining NATO and emboldening tyrants similar Putin.”

Trump has antecedently pledged to enforce across-the-board tariffs of 10 to 20 per cent and to slap a 60 per cent levy connected each goods coming from China. 

Think vessel the National Institute of Economic and Social Research has warned this could severely deed the UK’s maturation owed to the harm successful planetary trade.

Trump and starring Republicans person besides been sceptical of subject enactment for Ukraine arsenic it resists Russia’s invasion, starring to fears that the state could person to combat without US backing.

Responding to the questions, Sir Keir said: "Our narration with the US is simply a beardown narration forged successful precise hard circumstances historically.

"It remains arsenic beardown contiguous arsenic it was erstwhile it was archetypal forged and I look guardant to moving with President-elect Trump to guarantee that narration stays a peculiar relationship.

On a imaginable 'trade war', helium added: "We enactment the system centrepiece to our Budget and we volition bash everything that we request to bash to guarantee our system growths and that is measured successful surviving standards going up for moving radical crossed the country."

Trump’s triumph connected Wednesday, successful spite of polling suggesting a neck-and-neck contention with the Democrats, marks an bonzer comeback successful a governmental vocation which has been marred successful controversy, transgression charges, accusations of racism and sexism, and the US Capitol riots connected January 6 2021.