Mandelson tells friends Trump has agreed to him as UK ambassador to US
Mandelson tells friends Trump has agreed to him as UK ambassador to US
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An early headache for Keir Starmer may have been resolved following reports that Lord Mandelson will be allowed to be the UK’s ambassador to the US. But the Trump administration has also sent a warning over the Chagos Islands deal. Lord Peter Mandelson has told friends that he received his agréement to be the UK’s ambassador to the US from Donald Trump’s administration.
![[Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Evan Vucci/AP)]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/28/06/21-02007acf720a4451aa00629cbe1fbe6c.jpg)
If true it means that the Labour grandee will have his letters of credence accepted by Trump next month and can take up residence in Washington DC. However, the Foreign Office (FCDO) has not confirmed the reports in Politico yet and sources in the Trump team have raised question marks over whether the former EU commissioner and business secretary “has been given the green light.”.
![[Chagos Islands]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/18/15/Britain_Chagos_Islands_10126.jpg)
The confusion comes as newly installed US secretary of state Marco Rubio issued a warning to foreign secretary David Lammy over the attempts to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, as tensions between the UK government and US administration continue.
It comes amid reports that US senators have handed a file to the FBI to investigate the Labour peer’s links to China, the primary reason that Trump was said to be considering rejecting his nomination. The Independent revealed last week that the extremely rare move was being considered by Trump and that a decision is set to be made by the US president this week after papers are forwarded from the State Department.
