Mandelson made the comments in a 2019 interview with Italian journalist Alain Elkann:
- Trump is “little short of a white nationalist and racist.”
- Trump will “never be viewed by people in Britain as a true embodiment of or spokesman for our values”.
- On British attempts to foster better relations with Trump: “This disturbs me greatly because it’s completely different from all my upbringing, whether my family or in politics, what I believe, and the identity I see for my own country.”
- “What Donald Trump represents and believes is anathema to mainstream British opinion and the idea that as a result of Brexit, we have to kowtow to an American president who holds those views will outrage people in Britain.”
- “Even those who have a sneaking admiration for Donald Trump – because of the strength of his personality – nonetheless regard him as reckless and a danger to the world.”
Quite the start…
