Lord Peter Mandelson has urged Sir Keir Starmer to use Nigel Farage as a bridge between Donald Trump’s incoming administration and the UK. The Labour peer, who is the favourite to be named as the next British ambassador to the UK, also warned that his ...

Keir Starmer should be prepared to use populist Reform UK leader Nigel Farage as a “bridgehead” to working with US President-elect Donald Trump, according to a key ally of the British prime minister who’s tipped to become the UK’s next ambassador to Washington.