DAVID CAMERON’S cabinet minister for Scotland has likened Republican frontrunner Donald Trump to a “nuclear bomb” that could “destabilise the whole of the United States”.
In comments likely to raise eyebrows among some Conservative colleagues with links to the Republicans, David Mundell, the Scottish secretary, said the tycoon had defied what were previously considered to be the laws of politics.
In his first major newspaper interview since coming out as the only gay member of the UK cabinet, he told The Sunday Times: “In past years you could never have imagined a presidential candidate getting embroiled in a row with the Pope. I find it remarkable that that just happened.
“When I was in the US last year I met perfectly reasonable people who were supporting him because they wanted to — as they saw it — put a bomb under Washington. The concern is that he might be a nuclear bomb and not just take out the Washington establishment but destabilise the whole of the United States.”
Donald Trump’s campaign team did not comment.
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Mundell also told how he felt emotionally exhausted after making an announcement about his sexuality, adding that he would probably have had to resign from the cabinet and as an MP had it happened 20 years ago.
He said the next big equality challenge in this country is to secure better transgender rights, which he thinks should be enshrined in legislation.
“It is something that has been in the shadows and people haven’t wanted to confront,” he said.
