The Prime Minister is to announce shortly that the New Labour veteran and former cabinet minister will take up the post following Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, The Times reported.
Pierce will remain in place for Trump’s swearing in ceremony on 20 January but Mandelson will take up residency in Washington later that month, it is understood.
The influential Lord Mandelson sat with Labour’s inner team while listening to Rachel Reeves’ speech to the Labour party conference in 2023 (Photo: Stefan Rousseau / PA Wire)
But Mandelson has been praised by others across the political spectrum for his ability to engage and win people over – something that may be needed when Trump returns to the White House.
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The Labour peer is a close ally of Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney and also won the support for the job of Foreign Secretary David Lammy.
Mandelson beat former foreign secretary David Miliband, Baroness Amos, a former development secretary, and Baroness Ashton of Upholland, who succeeded Mandelson as European trade commissioner to get the post.
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