Peter Mandelson is being sent to Washington to join the battle for Donald Trump's ear

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "My instinct is that Trump respects serious operators and we all know what an operator Peter is."
51% : His most persuasive claim on the job is his expertise in an area of potential great danger to the UK's prosperity during Trump 2.0.
47% : The calculation at Number 10 is that Donald Trump, a man bored by conventional diplomatic types, will be sufficiently intrigued by a figure as vivid as Lord M to pay him attention.
40% : Lord M gave a glimpse of his approach when he recently suggested the UK should attempt to shimmy its way through conflict between the EU and the US.
22% : Says an old friend: "It is hard to know how Peter will cope if Trump starts to diss him in public.
17% : Like a lot of Labour people, he has attacked the once and future US president in the past, once describing Donald Trump as "little short of a white nationalist and racist", "anathema to mainstream British opinion", and "reckless and a danger to the world".

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