Peter Mandelson lauds Trump as ‘risk-taker’ in call for US-UK tech alliance

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Peter Mandelson lauds Trump as ‘risk-taker’ in call for US-UK tech alliance

British ambassador to Washington says US president has sounded ‘wake-up call to the international old guard’

Donald Trump is a risk-taker sounding a necessary wake-up call to a stale status quo, Peter Mandelson has told the Ditchley Foundation in a speech before Trump’s second state visit to the UK this month.

The UK’s ambassador to Washington portrayed Trump as a harbinger of a new force in politics at a time when business as usual no longer works for fed-up voters.

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