Lord Mandelson: Trump is a danger to the world and little short of a white nationalist

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "Lord Mandelson was picked for the influential post despite Trump tweeting in the autumn that Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, would be a "great choice".
51% : A key architect of New Labour under Sir Tony Blair, Lord Mandelson is set to take over the role of British ambassador to the US when Donald Trump begins his second term as president.
49% : His appointment comes as the UK faces the threat of tariffs on exported goods by Trump and the Foreign Office hopes to expand the export of British services to the US.
48% : He was picked ahead of David Miliband, the former foreign secretary, Baroness Amos, a former development secretary, and Baroness Ashton of Upholland, who succeeded him as European trade commissioner.
40% : The comments, made in an interview with an Italian journalist in 2019, threaten to undermine Sir Keir Starmer's campaign to boost relations with Trump as he returns to the White House next month.
38% : But the former cabinet minister previously warned against attempts to "make common cause" with the incoming president before his first term, saying that Trump would "never" be seen to embody British values.
30% : "He added: "What Donald Trump represents and believes is anathema to mainstream British opinion, and the idea that as a result of Brexit we have to kowtow to an American president who holds those views will outrage people in Britain.
27% : It has also emerged that Lord Mandelson called Trump a "bully" in 2018 in an article for the Evening Standard.
24% : Credit: Alain Elkann PodcastHe claimed that even those with a "sneaking admiration" for the president would regard him as "reckless and a danger to the world", warning that Trump would "never be viewed by people in Britain as a true embodiment of or spokesman for our values".
23% : "Even those who have a sneaking admiration for Donald Trump, because of the strength of his personality, nonetheless regard him as reckless and a danger to the world.
14% : Lord Mandelson once described Donald Trump as a "danger to the world" and "little short of a white nationalist and racist".

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