{"id":13956,"date":"2019-07-11T11:08:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T10:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/uk-ambassador-to-us-quits-amid-trump-row\/"},"modified":"2019-07-11T11:45:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T10:45:18","slug":"uk-ambassador-to-us-quits-amid-trump-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/uk-ambassador-to-us-quits-amid-trump-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Kim Darroch Resigns Due To Lack Of Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sir Kim Darroch Tossed Under The Bus By Boris Johnson<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The UK ambassador to the US, Sir Kim Darroch has been forced to resign after UK PM-elect Boris Johnson refused to give him any support in the final Tory leadership debate on Tuesday. This left his position untenable and as <\/span>Europe Minister Sir Alan Duncan stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;He&#8217;s basically thrown this fantastic diplomat under a bus to serve his own personal interests,&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_13987\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13987\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13987\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/London-Bus-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"London Bus\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/London-Bus-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/London-Bus-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/London-Bus-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/London-Bus-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/London-Bus.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">London Bus of the type that Sir Kim Darroch was proverbially thrown under by our self serving PM elect.<br \/>Editorial credit: Club4traveler \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All this comes after the Mail published some supposedly private communications which pointed out what is public knowledge anyway, that the Trump administration is to an even a casual observer displaying high levels of dysfunction with even members of his own party often siding with the opposition in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/united-states\/trump-loses-senate-vote-but-not-party\">Senate.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This has led to President Trump refusing to deal with Sir Kim and resorting to petty insults and personal attacks on Twitter.<\/p>\n<h3>Donald Trump Showing his lack of Statesmanship stooping to petty name-calling<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The wacky Ambassador that the U.K. foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy. He should speak to his country, and Prime Minister May, about their failed Brexit negotiation, and not be upset with my criticism of how badly it was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1148559442885185536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now, Boris Johnson&#8217;s obvious self-serving character flaws are well known but this seems a step too far and when asked, why he was not more supportive of Sir Kim, his answer, was &#8220;it&#8217;s wrong to drag civil servants into the political arena&#8221;. However, given the inextricable link between government and its ambassadors, this looks like a cop-out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-48937120\" rel=\"nofollow\">More here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Kim Darroch Tossed Under The Bus By Boris Johnson The UK ambassador to the US, Sir Kim Darroch has been forced to resign after UK PM-elect Boris Johnson refused to give him any support in the final Tory leadership debate on Tuesday. This left his position untenable and as Europe Minister Sir Alan Duncan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1338,246,1406],"class_list":["post-13956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada-news","tag-boris-johnson","tag-donald-trump","tag-sir-kim-darroch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13956"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13992,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13956\/revisions\/13992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}