David Cameron has met with Donald Trump regardless of beforehand describing him as “divisive, silly and fallacious”.
The international secretary held talks with the previous president as he tries to spice up Republican help for Ukraine.
Trump, who can be his celebration’s presidential candidate in November, has beforehand stated he may finish the Russia-Ukraine conflict “inside 24 hours”.
However consultants have condemned the plan, which they are saying would see Kyiv pressured to make main concessions to Vladimir Putin in return for an finish to the battle.
Cameron met with Trump in a single day at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida earlier than heading to Washington for talks with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
Forward of the assembly, a International Workplace spokesman stated: “It’s customary observe for ministers to satisfy with opposition candidates as a part of their routine worldwide engagement.”
Nonetheless, the assembly had the potential to be awkward given Cameron’s earlier feedback about Trump – and the previous president’s well-known dislike of being criticised.
When he was nonetheless prime minister in 2016, Cameron described Trump – who was working to be president first time round – as “divisive, silly and fallacious”.
And in his memoirs after he stop Downing Avenue, Cameron stated Trump was “protectionist, xenophobic, misogynistic”.
The international secretary’s talks with the previous president got here amid mounting issues that Russia is gaining the higher hand in its conflict with Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has referred to as on the west to spice up its monetary help for his nation – however Republicans in America have tried to dam President Joe Biden’s multi-billion greenback help bundle.
Cameron has beforehand drawn the ire of main Republicans over his pro-Ukraine feedback.
In February, main right-winger Marjorie Taylor Greene stated Cameron may “kiss my ass” after he drew comparisons between the appeasement of Adolf Hitler when urging the US Congress to not abandon Ukraine.