Lord Mandelson says calling Donald Trump a “danger to the world” in 2019 was “ill-judged and wrong”.
The previous Labour minister has been named as the following UK ambassador to the US, though there have been questions on whether or not President Trump will settle for him.
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The 71-year-old instructed the conservative-backing US TV channel: “I contemplate my remarks about President Trump as ill-judged and mistaken.
“I think times and attitudes towards the president have changed since then.
“I believe folks have been impressed, not simply by the extraordinary second mandate that he has acquired from the American folks, however the dynamism and vitality with which he approached not simply the marketing campaign however authorities as effectively.”
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Many Labour figures, together with the now Overseas Secretary David Lammy, criticised Mr Trump earlier than, throughout and after his first time period within the White Home.
Now they’re in authorities and Mr Trump is again in energy in Washington DC, language has change into extra diplomatic.
Lord Mandelson instructed the Alain Elkann Interviews podcast beforehand: “What Donald Trump represents and believes is an anathema to mainstream British opinion.”
He added: “Even those who have a sneaking admiration for Donald Trump because of his personality, nonetheless regard him as reckless, and a danger to the world.”
The possible new ambassador criticised Mr Trump’s perspective to a earlier holder of that workplace, and stated the president was “little short of a white nationalist and a racist”.
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Talking now, Lord Mandelson praised Mr Trump, saying he was a “nice” and “fair-minded person” who might change into “one of the most consequential American presidents I have known in my adult life”.
He added: “I think that with the approach he is taking to government, which frankly just seems to us in Britain so much more organised, it’s so much more coherent, he seems to be so much more clear in what he wants to do, we take encouragement from that, that gives us greater confidence.”
