Prime minister’s chief fixer says UK relationship with US is strong and will continue with Trump in the White House
In his interviews this morning Pat McFadden, the Cabinet Office minister, declined to criticise the way Kamala Harris ran her presidential election campaign, saying it was not for him to “lecture” another centre-left party on how it operated.
But he said the result did show the need for governments to act on living standards. He told LBC:
In the budget last week, you saw us raising the minimum wage, making sure the triple lock was kept for the next few years, keeping the freeze on fuel duty – issues which people care about on a month to month basis as they work out their budget.
And I think that was a big theme in the US election, and it’s something that was at the heart of our budget that was passed by the House of Commons last night.
Karen Pierce is ambassador in the United States at the moment. She is doing an excellent job. She’s got the full confidence of the British government, and we want her to keep on doing the job that she’s doing. And I think she’s going to be a very important interlocutor and adviser for the UK government in this period of transition.
I can’t say exactly when her term will end. She’s been doing it for a few years. She’s there for the moment, she’ll be there for a while, and she’s doing an absolutely fantastic job for her country. Continue reading…
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