Inside the embassy Peter Mandelson is soon supposed to move into, they've been under the impression that relations with the incoming administration were good.
This is awkward for Downing Street to say the least. The person chosen by the British government to be the keystone in the most important of bilateral relationships is, according to one of the incoming president's close aides, a 'complete moron'. Chris LaCivita is a central character in Trump's orbit. He managed Trump's election victory with incoming White House chief of staff Susie Wiles. He's inner circle. The words were clearly designed to stir things up.
That's presumably why LaCivita calls Pierce a 'professional universally respected ambo' in the same breath as the Mandelson broadside. My calls today to Team Trump and to LaCivita, for clarity have curiously gone unanswered. You can bet that similar attempts were made by senior British officials in Washington - to do some Mandelson-grade spinning and insist his comments were historic and not representative of his view now.
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