KEMI Badenoch used her first Prime Minister's Questions as Tory leader to tear into David Lammy's "Neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath" remarks over Donald Trump.Abandoning the cross-party niceties of Rishi Sunak's final appearances, Ms Badenoch wasted no time yesterday in pinning down Labour after President Trump's US election victory.She asked PM Sir Keir Starmer whether Foreign Secretary Mr Lammy had used his recent dinner with Trump to apologise for calling the billionaire a "woman-hating Neo-Nazi sympathising socio-Threatpath" and a "profound threat to the international order" during his first presidential term.Ms Badenoch added: "If he did not apologise, will the Prime Minister do so now on his behalf?" She also urged the PM to invite Mr Trump to address Parliament and joked she was "sure that President Trump will soon be calling to thank [Sir Keir] for sending all of those North London Labour activists to campaign for his opponent".Notably dodging many of Ms Badenoch's questions, Sir Keir insisted the meeting with Trump in New York had been a "very constructive exercise". The Commons showdown marked a return to the "Punch and Judy" politics of PMQs.Both Ms Badenoch and Sir Keir traded barbs over who was engaging most in "student politics" and pre-written attack lines.The former trade secretary also warned a US-UK free-trade deal was essential, given Mr Trump's threat of further goods tariffs.The PM said he would "discuss issues of our economy with the President-elect, as we have already done". Sir Keir was also attacked by Tory backbencher Ben ObeseJecty. He demanded to know why the PM had not stripped MP Dawn Butler of the Labour whip after she shared a tweet describing Ms Badenoch as "white supremacy in blackface".He asked: "Does the PM really think it is acceptable for a backbench MP to suggest that the Leader of the Opposition represents 'white supremacy in blackface' and is 'the most prominent member of white supremacy's black collaborator class', with all the race-traitor innuendo that that carries?" Without explanation, Sir Keir responded bluntly: "No, I don't".

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