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Darren Jones quizzed on Trump comments by Kuenssberg

A Labour minister was grilled about past criticism of Donald Trump in an awkward exchange with the BBC‘s Laura Kuenssberg.

Treasury minister Darren Jones insisted he did not remember branding the US president-elect “repugnant” in a 2016 social media post.

Pressed on if he still thinks Donald Trump is “repugnant”, Mr Jones told the BBC‘s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme: “Did I say that?

“Do you want to show me? Where is it? I don’t know where that’s from, do you want to show me.”

The host then read the quote which said: “In my view with the US election being so close with a Republican candidate as repugnant as Donald Trump spells a much longer-term problem for the centre left of politics.”

Darren Jones and Laura Kuenssberg (Image: BBC)

Mr Jones said: “Well look, it’s no surprise that as a Labour Party politician I support Labour sister parties such as the …