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Tuesday, November 22, 2016 11:50:22 AM
U.K. Rejects Trump’s Call for Nigel Farage to Be Made Ambassador
By STEPHEN CASTLENOV. 22, 2016
Nigel Farage, center, the interim leader of Britain’s populist, anti-immigrant U.K. Independence Party, at Trump Tower in New York this month.
Credit Yana Paskova/Getty Images
LONDON — Once again, President-elect Donald J. Trump seems to have gone out of his way to embarrass the British government.
After Election Day, he spoke with nine other leaders before taking a call from Prime Minister Theresa May and then told her casually, “If you travel to the U.S., you should let me know.”
In a Monday night Twitter post, just as the British government was reaching out to Mr. Trump to reaffirm the “special relationship” Britons prize with the United States, he suggested the appointment of Nigel Farage, the interim leader of Britain’s populist, anti-immigrant U.K. Independence Party, as United States ambassador.
The prime minister’s office quickly dismissed the recommendation, telling reporters: “There is no vacancy. We have an excellent ambassador to the U.S.” in Kim Darroch, a former national security adviser.
Of course there's more
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/world/europe/uk-donald-trump-nigel-farage.html?_r=0
By STEPHEN CASTLENOV. 22, 2016
Nigel Farage, center, the interim leader of Britain’s populist, anti-immigrant U.K. Independence Party, at Trump Tower in New York this month.
Credit Yana Paskova/Getty Images
LONDON — Once again, President-elect Donald J. Trump seems to have gone out of his way to embarrass the British government.
After Election Day, he spoke with nine other leaders before taking a call from Prime Minister Theresa May and then told her casually, “If you travel to the U.S., you should let me know.”
In a Monday night Twitter post, just as the British government was reaching out to Mr. Trump to reaffirm the “special relationship” Britons prize with the United States, he suggested the appointment of Nigel Farage, the interim leader of Britain’s populist, anti-immigrant U.K. Independence Party, as United States ambassador.
The prime minister’s office quickly dismissed the recommendation, telling reporters: “There is no vacancy. We have an excellent ambassador to the U.S.” in Kim Darroch, a former national security adviser.
Of course there's more
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/world/europe/uk-donald-trump-nigel-farage.html?_r=0
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