Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and the Trump presidency for the new Spectator USA website.

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.

Now, Dominic, we've just heard the news that Sir Kim has resigned.

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

Donald Trump and his administration. However, the mood on Twitter, at least, in Britain, is one of

indignation towards Trump that he should have pushed out an ambassador. What do you think?

Well, I think it was absolutely, there was no choice but for Kim

Derek to resign from the moment that Trump said he wouldn't receive him anymore. It's almost

unprecedented to have an American president saying that he didn't want to have anything to do

with the most senior diplomatic representative of America's closest foreign ally. So from that

moment, the die was cast. Some of the protests about this, of course, in Britain perhaps may stem

from wounded pride because the whole episode has been a real fiasco and a sort of final moment of

disaster for the Theresa May government, just as we thought it was

serenely gliding towards a crash landing in the coming days.

Yes.

Well, I mean, and there's quite a lot of criticism already about Boris Johnson, the incoming

Prime Minister, because whereas Jeremy Hunt, who some reason, some Americanists may not know,

Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson are

trying to become the next Tory leader and therefore the next prime minister. Jeremy Hunt said that he

defended, well, he defended Sir Kim Darik, although he was quick to balance that out with lots

of praise for Trump's administration, but he did defend the ambassador, whereas Boris has refused the same thing,

and now people are taking that as Boris sort of joining in in this decapitation, a hard

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