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Nina Lloyd

Mandelson an ‘asset’ to UK-US ties, No 10 says after Trump ally jibe

Lord Mandelson will become the next UK ambassador to the US (Yui Mok/PA) - (PA Archive)

Downing Street has rejected suggestions that Lord Mandelson becoming the UK’s ambassador to the US will cause more problems than benefits for the UK after he was insulted by a Donald Trump adviser.

Number 10 defended the Labour grandee as a “significant asset” to the transatlantic relationship after Chris LaCivita, an architect of the president-elect’s 2024 campaign, called him an “absolute moron”.

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