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The Secretary of State’s earlier remarks about Donald Trump coming up during PMQs today may be a sign of things to come.

Many members of Sir Keir Starmer’s senior team said some deeply disturbing things during the president-elect’s last visit to the White House, a period that mostly coincided with Jeremy Corbyn leading the Labor Party.

Here’s what some leading ministers said earlier:

Sir Keir Starmer

The prime minister declared himself “anti-Trump but pro-American” as recently as 2021, when Joe Biden was the leader of the opposition and president.

And just last year he made an unflattering comparison here between Trump and the Conservatives, saying the then-ruling party was behaving “more and more like Donald Trump.”

“They all woke up, woke up, woke up. Wedge, wedge, wedge. Divide, divide, divide.”

David Lammy

Of all the comments from Labor’s front line, the foreign secretary’s comments are likely to be the strangest at the moment – although it’s worth noting that David Lammy has worked hard to establish a working relationship with Team Trump in recent months.

Just this September, a dinner between Starmer, Lammy and Trump at Trump Tower reportedly went quite well.

Likewise, because in 2017, Lammy described Trump as a “racist and KKK/neo-Nazi sympathizer.”

He also called it “a profound threat to international order.”

Angela Rayner

During the Capitol riots in January 2021, when Trump supporters tried to stop the election of Joe Biden, the current deputy Prime Minister said Republicans who sided with Trump had “blood on their hands.”

“I was so glad to see the back of Donald Trump,” he said when Biden’s inauguration took place later that month.

Wes Street

In 2017, the current health secretary came perilously close to quoting Buzz Lightyear when he described Trump as a “nasty, sad little man.”

“Imagine being proud to have that as your president,” he added.

Ed Miliband

In November 2016, when Trump was first elected president, the former Labor leader said he was a “wager” and a “racist”.

Miliband, now energy and net-zero emissions minister, said he was alarmed by Trump’s climate skepticism, his attitude towards Russia and his penchant for trade tariffs.

All three remain concerned eight years later.