New Labour veteran Lord Mandelson, a former EU trade commissioner, did not rule out his interest in being Keir Starmer's pick to be the new UK ambassador to Washington
New Labour veteran Lord Mandelson, a former EU trade commissioner, did not rule out his interest in being Keir Starmer's pick to be the new UK ambassador to Washington
Lord Mandelson, a former EU trade commissioner and Business Secretary under Gordon Brown, is seen in Whitehall as a strong candidate who could navigate what could be a difficult tussle between the EU, UK and the US over trade. The chief secretary to the Treasury told Sky News: “The position of the government is that we support free trade and support the trading relationship between the US and UK, it’s a very strong, very fruitful relationship.
Jones told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that he could not get into the detail of responding to what were currently hypothetical plans of the incoming Trump administration but asked how the government would respond to tariffs on UK goods, he added: “If that situation were to arise in the future, we would of course have to respond to it. What I can’t tell you today is how.”
Mandelson replied: “I can do better than that. I am more in favour of a new relationship rather than the special one.”
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