Prospective British Ambassador to Washington Rows Back Trump Criticism

Lord Peter Mandelson has said he was wrong to label the president a ‘danger to the world’ in 2018.

Labour grandee Lord Peter Mandelson, in an undated file photo. Yui Mok/PA

Britain’s prospective new ambassador to Washington has rowed back on comments that he made about U.S. President Donald Trump.

Lord Peter Mandelson has said he was “wrong” to describe Trump as a “danger to the world” in an interview that he gave to the London Evening Standard in 2019.