{"id":323555,"date":"2025-12-18T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323555\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:20:10","slug":"u-k-p-m-starmer-taps-christian-turner-for-u-s-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/323555\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. P.M. Starmer taps Christian Turner for U.S. ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"

Career diplomat Christian Turner is Britain’s newest ambassador to the United States, the British government announced Thursday. File Photo by Mohamed Messara\/EPA<\/p>\n

Dec. 18 (UPI) — Career diplomat Christian Turner is British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s choice to serve as the United Kingdom’s ambassador to the United States.<\/p>\n

Turner replaces former ambassador Peter Mandelson, who was recalled in September<\/a> amid fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.\n<\/p>\n

Officials in Britain’s Foreign Office sought an experienced diplomat capable of working with the Trump administration, according to The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Relations between President Donald Trump’s administration and the United Kingdom have been strained due to Trump’s criticism of European nations regarding NATO and other matters.\n<\/p>\n

Starmer and Trump also have differed regarding efforts to end the Ukraine War that started when Russia invaded its neighbor on Feb. 24, 2022, and efforts to seek a lasting peace in the Middle East, the Independent reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition to briefly serving as U.N. ambassador, Turner also has served as the Foreign Office’s political director and was U.K. ambassador to Pakistan.<\/p>\n

He has worked with many U.K. foreign secretaries and is considered to be an effective and trusted adviser.<\/p>\n

Turner’s new post requires him to move from New York City, where the United Nations is headquartered, to Washington, D.C.\n<\/p>\n

He might be an essential part of easing tensions over the BBC’s recent editing of Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, comments to supporters ahead of the Capitol riot, which it included in a recent documentary.<\/p>\n

The president has filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC.<\/p>\n

Turner also could be tasked with easing tensions between Trump and London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan.<\/p>\n

The president has called Khan “disgusting” and a “disaster” for his policies and their effect on Great Britain’s capital city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Career diplomat Christian Turner is Britain’s newest ambassador to the United States, the British government announced Thursday. File…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,229,51,56,54,55,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-323555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}