Dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago was entirely in line with precedent, Lord Cameron says [Video]

Lord David Cameron has said it was “entirely in line with precedent” for him to have dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago amid his push to shore up US support for Ukraine.

The Foreign Secretary refused to be drawn on the details of his discussion with the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, saying only that it covered a “range of important geopolitical subjects”.

Lord Cameron made a surprise visit to Mr Trump’s Florida resort on Monday ahead of flying to Washington DC to launch his latest appeal to Congress over a stalled multi-billion-dollar package of aid for Kyiv.

This was entirely in line with precedent of Government ministers meeting with opposition politicians in the run-up to elections

Lord David Cameron

The funding faces an uphill battle in the House of Representatives amid opposition from hardline Republicans aligned with Mr Trump.

Lord Cameron, who has previously criticised the former president’s interventions as “protectionist, xenophobic (and) misogynistic”, played …