IN 2019, the then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn refused to attend a banquet organised by the British government in honour of racist, fascist thug Donald Trump.

Corbyn was widely condemned by both the media and Tories, but once again he has been proved right, as he was over Ireland, the Iraq war and austerity.

Contrast Mr Corbyn’s attitude to Trump to the sycophantic grovellers of the Tory Party. As soon as Trump was elected Michael Gove flew to the States to conduct a TV interview where Gove did everything other than kiss Trump’s orange backside.

As for our great leader Boris Johnson, he even suggested that Trump should be offered nothing less than the Nobel Peace Prize.

Jacob Rees-Mogg said that if he was American, he would have voted for Trump and moreover, went so far as to say in an interview with Andrew Neil on the Daily Politics Show in January 2017 that Trump “is broadly on the same political side as the Conservative Party”.

Rees-Mogg of course is absolutely right, the British Conservative Party has so much in common with Trump, as they are both racists who use divide and rule politics to win elections.

However, the Tories will pay a heavy political price for their appeasement of Trump. President-elect Biden has no time for Johnson, especially after the racist remarks Johnson made about his good friend, ex-President Barack Obama. Thus, the chances of a favourable trade deal with the US and a continuation of the so-called “special relationship” are virtually nil.

John Gilmore, Bishop Auckland.