Author: Mark Landler
Published on: 05/02/2025 | 00:00:00
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Peter Mandelson, Britain’s new ambassador to the United States, will try to sustain a relationship strained by President Trump’s disdain for alliances and free trade. He was packing up his home before heading to Buckingham Palace for an audience with King Charles III. Mr. Mandelson was keeping an eye on Mr. Trump's latest exchanges with Canada and Mexico, after he had imposed sweeping tariffs. Mr. Mandelson has been denounced by a faction of Trump loyalists. The 71-year-old has fallen in and out of favor with successive Labour leaders. Mr. Starmer's decision to appoint him to the post surprised some in London. Mr. Mandelson wrote a column in 2018 for a London paper, The Evening Standard. He took Mr. Trump to task for imposing tariffs on China. The president, he wrote, was a “bully and a mercantilist” Mandelson's defenders say his heavyweight credentials and cosmopolitan manner could appeal to Mr. Trump, who may recognize in him a fellow player. London will be hoping that assigning a political figure of Mandelson’s stature and intellect will be seen as a compliment. Mr. Mandelson was forced to resign in 2019 after a London paper published confidential cables. Mark Landler is the London bureau chief of The Times. He has been a journalist for more than three decades. The Trump Administration’s First 100 Days Tariffs: President Trump’s demands on the United States’ neighbors are difficult to measure.
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