U.K. Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy called President Donald Trump's response to anti-racism protests a 'deliberate election strategy'
The U.K. government should condemn a "deliberate election strategy" by U.S. President Donald Trump to use anti-racism protests to activate his electoral base, said Lisa Nandy, the shadow foreign secretary.
Asked on the BBC's Andrew Marr show to comment on Trump's response to the protests against the killing by police of George Floyd, that continued in several U.S. cities on Saturday, the Labour politician said: "I actually think that this is a deliberate election strategy. Now I've no idea whether Donald Trump is a racist or not a racist. What I do know is that in the run-up to the American elections, this is one of the ways that politicians try to activate their base.
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