Labour’s Ed Miliband squirms when confronted over calling Trump ‘racist, misogynistic, self-confessed groper’

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00:00We will seek to find common ground with Donald Trump.

00:03He will make his own decisions about what he wants to do.

00:05I obviously want him to stay in the Paris climate agreement,

00:08but that's his decision.

00:10He's been elected by the US people.

00:14But we will work with him and seek that common ground.

00:17How are you going to persuade him, though?

00:19How do you build a relationship with a man who you described

00:22in the past as a racist, misogynistic, self-confessed

00:26groper?

00:31Look, I said things in the past.

00:35My job now as a government minister

00:37is to work with the new US administration.

00:40Donald Trump's done lots of tweets in his time as well.

00:44I think what he will be interested in

00:46is serving the mandate from the American people.

00:50What we're interested in is serving the mandate

00:52from the British people.

00:53And the British people have elected

00:55us to drive forward with this clean energy transition.

00:59We set out a clear manifesto saying

01:01we thought this was in our national economic interest

01:04to drive this forward, and the right thing

01:06for future generations as well.

01:08We will stand up for the values that we believe in

01:11and the mandate on which we were elected.

01:13No doubt Donald Trump will do the same.

01:16And we will seek out that common ground.

01:17I'm sure there is common ground that we can find.

01:20And just to make this one other point,

01:22the Kyoto Agreement of 1997 was not, in the end,

01:25ratified by the United States.

01:27Donald Trump came out of the Paris Agreement in 2017.

01:31But the world carried on.

01:33The world carried on moving.

01:35And so, of course, the US election results

01:37are highly relevant to these discussions here this week.

01:41But I think the reality is that this

01:44is an unstoppable transition because

01:46of the economics of this transition,

01:48as well as countries realising the threat climate poses.

01:51And you need to look at the tragic events in Spain

01:54to know why we need to act.