Alastair Campbell

And then we're getting some of it back.

And it's not nice.

Now, I don't agree with the Vice President's comments.

I didn't agree with his comments about British contribution to the Second World War.

There are lots of things he says I fundamentally disagree with.

But what I don't do is, and I'm pretty sure, but I've not done an audit of myself, but I'm pretty sure.

that there is no or not much of me going studs up on other countries' administrations other than the time when it was my job to do so.

So when I was a foreign minister, a big part of the job is laying down the UK position on the conduct of other countries, both domestically and internationally.

It's part of the job.

But slating individuals of other countries and very much personalising it.

The Trump administration have got a lot of this, and they're doing it back to us, and we don't like it.

It's white supremacy.

I'm not defending the positions they've taken.

I'm not cheerleading for the Trump White House or his administration.

What I'm saying is...

that if we're saying that it's wrong when that administration criticizes us, and I think that was kind of the implication of the question, then we've got to ask ourselves, have we been doing it?

And we have.

Lots of us have.

Now, you can argue that, oh, well, when we do it, it's completely legit, and when they do it, it's illegit.

And that may be true, but it just makes it a harder argument to make.