Keir Starmer has appointed the career diplomat Christian Turner as the UK’s ambassador to Washington, replacing Peter Mandelson who was forced to quit over his links to Jeffrey Epstein. Turner, the who was appointed ambassador to the UN in May, had previously been political director at the Foreign Office and had brokered a close relationship […]
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Starmer to pick new US ambassador as relations with Trump tested | Foreign policy
Keir Starmer is poised to choose a new ambassador to Washington from a shortlist of three as relations with the US are tested over Ukraine and Donald Trump’s attacks on European leaders. The prime minister held interviews with three finalists for the role this week, the Guardian has learned, with Downing Street preparing to make […]