Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, is denouncing Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s efforts to make Labour Party grandee Lord Peter Mandelson the British Ambassador to the United States. Speaking to Charlie Kirk, Kassam noted that Mandelson has said “some of the most skullduggerous things about Donald Trump” and is compromised by the fact he continues to receive substantial sums of money from the European Union, where he served as a Commissioner.
Mandelson, who in 2019 attacked President Trump as a “danger to the world” and “little short of a white nationalist and a racist,” was “deeply responsible for Britain’s social and economic decline” as a member of former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government, Kassam recalled. Though he was forced to resign from Blair’s Cabinet in disgrace twice, he was rewarded with a de facto promotion to the European Commission. He later returned to government under Blair’s successor, Gordon Brown, who also made him a lifetime member of the House of Lords.
“[T]he idea that Keir Starmer, the current Prime Minister, would shove somebody like Lord Mandelson into the embassy in D.C. and expect him to be taken seriously is a great affront to President Trump, it’s a great affront to the American public and what they voted for,” Kassam told Kirk. “It shows a deep disconnect of Britain with America right now, and I’m frankly embarrassed about it and apologetic, actually, to all of you about that.”
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He also said it “speaks to the fecklessness and arrogance of the British government that for so long they have appointed ambassadors who are nasty about Donald Trump, who have said horrendous things, who have terrible things in their own past”—an allusion to another former British ambassador, Sir Kim Darroch, and Mandelson’s very close personal relationship with the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Kassam referenced The National Pulse report that President Trump may even consider rejecting Mandelson’s diplomatic credentials, “which is in the gift of the receiving country of an ambassador to do, but is deeply unheard of.”
“It tells you something; it tells you that it’s not business as usual for this incoming Trump administration, and that they’re just simply not going to put up with it anymore,” he said, describing Mandelson as a representation of all the “terrible ambassadors” that President Trump was expected to tolerate in his first term.
