LONDON — Veteran U.K. Labour Party politician Peter Mandelson will be Britain’s next ambassador to Washington, people familiar with the decision said Thursday. Mandelson, who served in senior posts in the governments of former prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, is expected to take up his job early next year. Mandelson, 71, has been considered a front-runner for the …
Elon Musk has hit back at a suggestion MPs could summon him to Britain to give evidence about X's role in promoting disinformation by threatening to ask them to come to the US to 'explain their censorship'. It comes as Labour peer Lord Mandelson, who is the frontrunner to be Britain's next ambassador to the US, urged Sir Keir to …
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As part of a discussion over whether donors had put parties under pressure to change policy, he said: “I can offer you an example from 1997 where an organisation – it was a fund to do with the welfare of animals – got pretty transactional with us. It wasn’t attractive and it’s not been repeated.” Regret about the ban Tim …
