28 Dec 2016: Sky News: UK ambassador Sir Kim Darroch in charm offensive towards Donald Trump
Sir Kim Darroch praises Trump’s “historic and impressive win” weeks after dismissing him as “an outsider and an unknown quantity”.
By Jon Craig
The ambassador’s original comment, in a leaked memo to the Prime Minister written on the day after the US election, prompted Mr Trump to champion Mr Farage to replace Sir Kim...
And he (Farage) called for Sir Kim to resign as ambassador because he is a “fanatical Europhile and part of the old regime” whose views would be “diametrically opposed to Trump’s”...
In his 9 November memo, leaked to The Sunday Times, Sir Kim told Mrs May that “Trump did the apparently impossible” in winning the White House.
And he said: “It bears repeating that this soon to be President-elect is above all an outsider and an unknown quantity, whose campaign pronouncements may reveal his instincts, but will surely evolve and, particularly, be open to outside influence if pitched right.”...
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-ambassador-sir-kim-darroch-in-charm-offensive-towards-donald-trump-10710414
5 March 2018: New Yorker: Jane Mayer: Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier
How the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia
Inevitably, though, word of the dossier began to spread through Washington. A former State Department official recalls a social gathering where he danced around the subject with the British Ambassador, Sir Kim Darroch. After exchanging cryptic hints, to make sure that they were both in the know, he asked the Ambassador, “Is this guy Steele legit?” The Ambassador replied, “Absolutely.”...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/christopher-steele-the-man-behind-the-trump-dossier
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