Donald Trump and Pat McFadden

Cabinet office minister Pat McFadden refused three times to deny that Donald Trump has KKK or Nazi sympathies this morning.

The Republican’s re-election to the White House has triggered old, anti-Trump remarks from current Labour ministers to resurface.

Foreign secretary David Lammy’s previous comments have come under particular scrutiny – he once called Trump a “neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath” and “a racist KKK and Nazi sympathiser”.

So on LBC this morning, presenter Nick Ferrari asked McFadden: “Do you think Donald Trump has KKK sympathies or Nazi sympathies?”

The minister replied: “I think the........

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