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🗓️ 10 July 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and the Trump presidency for the new Spectator USA website. |
0:16.1 | I'm joined today by Dominic Green, who is Life and Arts Editor of Spectator USA, and we're going to be talking about the resignation of Sir Kim Darrow. |
0:24.8 | Now, Dominic, we've just heard the news that Sir Kim has resigned. |
0:29.3 | It seems to me that this was pretty much inevitable after the mail on Sunday leaked some diplomatic cables in which he said some pretty rude things about |
0:39.5 | Donald Trump and his administration. However, the mood on Twitter, at least, in Britain, is one of |
0:45.8 | indignation towards Trump that he should have pushed out an ambassador. What do you think? |
0:53.3 | Well, I think it was absolutely, there was no choice but for Kim |
0:57.7 | Derek to resign from the moment that Trump said he wouldn't receive him anymore. It's almost |
1:02.6 | unprecedented to have an American president saying that he didn't want to have anything to do |
1:06.9 | with the most senior diplomatic representative of America's closest foreign ally. So from that |
1:13.5 | moment, the die was cast. Some of the protests about this, of course, in Britain perhaps may stem |
1:19.8 | from wounded pride because the whole episode has been a real fiasco and a sort of final moment of |
1:25.5 | disaster for the Theresa May government, just as we thought it was |
1:29.0 | serenely gliding towards a crash landing in the coming days. |
1:32.9 | Yes. |
1:34.0 | Well, I mean, and there's quite a lot of criticism already about Boris Johnson, the incoming |
1:38.1 | Prime Minister, because whereas Jeremy Hunt, who some reason, some Americanists may not know, |
1:43.3 | Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson are |
1:44.7 | trying to become the next Tory leader and therefore the next prime minister. Jeremy Hunt said that he |
1:50.5 | defended, well, he defended Sir Kim Darik, although he was quick to balance that out with lots |
1:56.1 | of praise for Trump's administration, but he did defend the ambassador, whereas Boris has refused the same thing, |
2:03.3 | and now people are taking that as Boris sort of joining in in this decapitation, a hard |
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