“Reckless and a danger to the world,” was how Peter Mandelson — Lord Mandelson, a longtime senior official in the UK’s Labour Party who now sits in the House of Lords as a life peer — described the once and future U.S. President Donald J. Trump in an interview with an Italian journalist in 2019, during Trump’s first presidency.

In other public statements, Mandelson has called Trump a “bully” and “little short of a white nationalist and racist.”

Last week, the UK’s new Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced without a trace of irony that he was “delighted” to appoint the same Mandelson his country’s new ambassador to the United States.

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