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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kate Devlin

UK risks infuriating Donald Trump as frontrunner to be Britain’s US ambassador suggests it is a part-time job

The UK risks infuriating Donald Trump after the frontrunner to be Britain’s next ambassador to the US suggested he could combine the job with another role.

Former Labour cabinet minister Lord Mandelson said that becoming the UK’s man in Washington was not “incompatible” with being next chancellor of the University of Oxford.

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