David Lammy tells US Republicans he can find 'common cause' with Trump

David Lammy, the shadow foreign secretary, has set out in a Washington DC speech his credentials as a British foreign secretary capable of working with a Trump presidency, saying he "gets the agenda that drives America First", and insisting he would seek to find "common cause" with Donald Trump. He vowed a Labour government "will always work with the United States, whatever the weather and whoever wins" and in government he said he would work in the national interest. Speaking at the Hudson Institute, a right-of-centre thinktank, Lammy also said Trump's demands to see higher European defence spending had been…