Dame Priti Patel has hailed Donald Trump's "extraordinary mandate" as US President, and says the Conservative Party believes in the UK's "special relationship" with the United States. The shadow foreign secretary made the comments despite disagreeing with Trump's description of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a "dictator" and his echoing of Russian rhetoric on the war. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00President Trump has had the most extraordinary mandate and won a very, very convincing, strong,
00:06successful election. And the Republican Party, which he represents, they are my sister party,
00:13effectively, the sister party of the Conservative Party. We stand by our US allies. We believe in
00:18the special relationship. You already heard me speak about the historic successes of that
00:23historic special relationship. We want that to continue. And I can tell you now I've met with
00:29Republican congressmen and women this week who've come to London. And these, we are having
00:34constructive discussions about ways of working and being supportive of each other in the future.
00:38And I think that's right and proper.