The Starmer government in the U.K. (sometimes referred to domestically as the Stürmer government) is reported to be naming Lord Peter Mandelson as the U.K.’s new Ambassador to the United States (see separate report, beginning with President-elect Trump’s inauguration.
Recall that the U.K. Ambassador to the U.S. in Trump’s first term, sent by Theresa May’s Conservative government, was Sir Kim Darroch, the author of embarrassing secret cables which, when revealed, showed him full of very British contempt for the U.S. President, but trying to surround him with “Trump whisperers” who could firm up his policy for, in particular, war on Iran. EIR reported at the time that “After the President refused at the last minute to authorize a strike against Iran on June 21 [2019], Darroch wrote that Trump’s Iran policy is ‘incoherent, chaotic’, but hoped that another Iranian attack, somewhere in the region” could trigger Trump into action. In July 2019, after Trump had all but declared Sir Kim persona non grata—the formal legal process by which a host government expels a foreign diplomat—and demanded he be thrown out, Darroch resigned on July 10. Darroch was made Baron Darroch of Kew on Nov. 11, 2019.
