Sir peter westmacott brexit vote

A FORMER UK ambassador insisted it's about time the UK Government published its plans and moved on with the Brexit process.

'Taking back control' is a slogan not a strategy, argues the former ambassador to the US. The EU referendum calls for a calm assessment of.

Shortly before his stunning and largely unexpected victory in the Nov. 8 presidential election, Donald Trump predicted “an amazing day”.

Last December, Parliament voted to amend the EU Withdrawal Bill, guaranteeing a “meaningful” vote before Brexit.

The potential departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union following the referendum has prompted lengthy negotiations between both sides.

Shortly before his stunning and largely unexpected victory in the Nov. 8 presidential election, Donald Trump predicted “an amazing day”.!

UK leaders became too close to Trump, says ex-ambassador

British prime ministers have been absent from the world stage for the past four years while becoming too close to Donald Trump and his “pie in the sky promises” of a free trade deal, a former UK ambassador to Washington has said.

Sir Peter Westmacott, who was ambassador from to and got to know many of Joe Biden’s foreign policy team when they were working for Barack Obama in that period, said the start of the new US administration gave Britain a chance for a diplomatic reset, so long as ministers “bring bread to the table”.

The modus operandi of British foreign policy had been hamstrung in the Trump years, Westmacott told the Guardian in an interview.

“Britain’s first instinct, especially when it does not know what to do, is to ask the Americans, but that was near impossible when US policy was being made by early hour tweet,” he said.

“There were also huge gaps in the Trump administration either because places never got fi