Lord Mandelson slammed as a ‘moron’ by Trump strategist

Uh oh. Less than 24 hours after Peter Mandelson was appointed the next UK ambassador to Washington, Donald Trump’s team are kicking up a fuss. Now Chris LaCivita has taken to Twitter to blast the new ambassador and Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government for the decision.

Writing on the social media platform, LaCivita – who is a political strategist for the Republican Party – fumed that Lord Mandelson should ‘stay home’, adding: ‘Replace a professional universally respected [ambassador] with an absolute moron.’ Ouch.

Lord Mandelson will take over the top job from Karen Pierce – but his previous comments about the current President-elect may age badly. Mr S would remind readers that the Labour peer once described Donald Trump as a ‘danger to the world’ and ‘little short of a white nationalist and racist’. And the rest of the Labour lot haven’t made things easy either, what with Foreign Secretary David Lammy previously calling Trump a ‘neo-nazi sympathiser’.