Incoming British ambassador to US praises Trump in op-ed

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Incoming British ambassador to US praises Trump in op-ed
by Filip Timotija
 01/17/25 11:10 PM ET
The Hill

The incoming British ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson praised President-elect Trump in a new op-ed, predicting his forthcoming presidency will be one of the “most consequential” in recent years.

“America’s allies need to hear the message the American people have sent and calibrate their partnerships in order to work with and alongside the U.S. to stand up for the joint interests that unite us,” Mandelson wrote in a Fox News op-ed published on Friday.

Mandelson, who is set to replace Dame Karen Pierce, wrote that he views three areas where the U.K. and the U.S. can expand their long-running partnership: national security, economic growth and foreign policy.

“Five decades as a politician and latterly as a businessman have taught me always to hear your electorate and listen to your customer,” he wrote in the op-ed. “Alliances between foreign nations need to do the same. Foreign relationships must hear these messages and evolve rapidly to deliver for their citizens. The Atlantic alliance cannot simply enjoy its glorious past – it must adapt to new threats and technological challenges.”

Mandelson, a Labour Party politician, argued the U.S. and U.K. national security partnership has to be “clearer in how they keep our people safe.”  ...

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Trump aide's Mandelson jibe was clearly designed to stir things up - but why?
Inside the embassy Peter Mandelson is soon supposed to move into, they've been under the impression that relations with the incoming administration were good.
Mark Stone
SkyNews
Saturday 21 December 2024 09:09, UK

This is awkward for Downing Street to say the least. The person chosen by the British government to be the keystone in the most important of bilateral relationships is, according to one of the incoming president's close aides, a "absolute moron".

Chris LaCivita is a central character in Trump's orbit. He managed Trump's election victory with incoming White House chief of staff Susie Wiles. He's inner circle.

The words were clearly designed to stir things up. But why? ...

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Links between Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein detailed in JPMorgan report
Emails indicate then UK business secretary stayed at New York house while disgraced financier was in prison
Jim Pickard in London and Joe Miller in New York June 20 2023

The extent of Jeffrey Epstein’s contact with former UK cabinet minister Lord Peter Mandelson is laid bare in a newly released report that describes repeated meetings between the disgraced financier and the politician he knew as “Petie”.

The internal JPMorgan report from 2019, filed to a New York court on Tuesday, found that “Jeffrey Epstein appears to maintain a particularly close relationship with Prince Andrew the Duke of York and Lord Peter Mandelson, a senior member of the British government”.

The bank’s probe — codenamed Project Jeep, and commissioned to shed light on JPMorgan’s 15-year relationship with Epstein — refers to various meetings and conversations between Epstein and Mandelson.

It suggests that in June 2009, when he was the UK business secretary, Mandelson stayed at Epstein’s lavish townhouse in Manhattan, while the financier was in prison for soliciting prostitution from a minor.  ...

Financial Times