Awards nod for comic who lampoons Donald Trump

A Donald Trump impersonator is in the running for one of the top honours at the annual Scottish Comedy Awards, organisers have revealed.

Lewis Macleod has been nominated alongside household names Frankie Boyle, Armando Ianucci, Brian “Limmy” Limond and Des Clarke.

Macleod, star of radio show Dead Ringers and TV show Newzoids, will be in the running for the best variety act honour at the awards, which are held during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Macleod, whose mimicry of President Trump has featured on the BBC’S Daily Politics programme, can also mimic the likes of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Boris Johnson, Gordon Brown and George Galloway.

Macleod will be competing against Colin Cloud, the Lanarkshire “stage mentalist” who reached the final stages of the America’s Got Talent TV, for best variety act.