Ed Miliband and Marco Rubio before their meeting.Ed Miliband awkwardly blanked a reporter who asked him about his previous criticism of Donald Trump as he met one of the president’s closest allies in Washington.
The new foreign secretary simply grinned and shook US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s hand as Sky News’s James Matthews asked if he still thinks Trump is “an idiot, a racist and a misogynist”.
Miliband made as series of criticisms of Trump during his first term in office.
In 2016, he said: “The idea that we share values with a racist, misogynistic, self-confessed groper beggars belief .”
The following year, Miliband said the president had “lowered the bar for idiocy”.
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