Wes Streeting confronted with old tweets opposing ‘sad, odious’ Trump’s last state visit

Wes Streeting was confronted with old tweets he made opposing Donald Trump’s last state visit, after Keir Starmer yesterday (27 February) presented the US president with a royal invitation for a second UK visit.

Good Morning Britain host Adil Ray accused the health secretary of ‘rolling out the red carpet’ in an apparent u-turn after writing on X in 2017: “Trump is such an odious, sad, little man. Imagine being proud to have that as your President,” and signing a 2019 petition to block Trump’s state visit.

Starmer described the latest invitation as ‘historic’ - US presidents have not traditionally been offered state visits in their second term - and hailed Trump’s 2019 visit as a ‘tremendous success’.