- Lord Cameron flew to Florida to meet former president Donald Trump
- He is currently on a diplomatic tour of the US to lobby support for Ukraine
- Cameron has made several disparaging remarks about Trump in the past
The UK’s foreign secretary Lord David Cameron flew to Florida to meet former president Donald Trump last night, during his diplomatic tour of the US.
Cameron was due to sit down with the current Republican frontrunner at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, the Sun reported.
Cameron is the first senior member of the UK government to visit Trump since he left office in 2021.
It is not currently known what the pair are set to discuss, but Cameron is currently in the US on an official trip to bolster support for Ukraine as the US’ House of Representatives bicker over a massive $60billion military aid package, which the Senate, Congress’ upper house, passed nearly two months ago.
Cameron has previously been disparaging of Trump in the past, calling him ‘divisive, stupid and wrong’ when he was Prime Minister in 2016.
He later accused the former president, who is facing several civil and criminal cases in courts across America, of being ‘protectionist, xenophobic, [and] misogynistic.’
Cameron is also set to meet the US’ Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, as well as congressional leaders, to push for the massive aid package to be passed.
He issued a fresh plea for the US to support Ukraine with his French counterpart, minister for Europe and foreign affairs Stéphane Séjourné, in Monday’s Daily Telegraph.
He and Séjourné wrote: ‘The costs of failing to support Ukraine now will be far greater than the costs of repelling Putin.
‘We must do even more to ensure we defeat Russia. The world is watching — and will judge us if we fail.’
The former prime minister’s interventions haven’t always been welcomed in the US, with hardline Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene publicly telling Cameron to ‘kiss my ass’ after he pushed Congress to pass the aid package back in December.
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Perkin Amalaraj
