{"id":82500,"date":"2025-12-18T21:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=82500"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:31:10","slug":"starmer-appoints-diplomat-to-replace-mandelson-as-us-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/18\/starmer-appoints-diplomat-to-replace-mandelson-as-us-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer appoints diplomat to replace Mandelson as US ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/12\/18\/18\/32\/Christian-Turner.avif\" alt=\"Christian Turner is the new ambassador to the US\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sinn Fein urges Starmer to intervene in case of pro-Palestine hunger strikers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/keir-starmer-mary-lou-mcdonald-sinn-fein-prime-minister-british-b2887305.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Sir Keir Starmer<\/a>\u00a0has chosen veteran diplomat Christian Turner as Peter\u00a0<a title=\"Starmer\u2019s Cabinet branded \u2018bunch of turkeys\u2019 in final PMQs before Christmas\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/kemi-badenoch-christmas-prime-minister-mps-pmqs-b2886286.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Mandelson<\/a>\u2019s successor as Britain\u2019s ambassador to the US.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/starmer-appoints-diplomat-to-replace-mandelson-as-us-ambassador\/ar-AA1SCdK6?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&amp;cvid=c0fe38cef07f47b5a709c11cc1b5ae80&amp;ei=37\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Sir Keir Starmer\u00a0has chosen veteran diplomat Christian Turner as Peter\u00a0Mandelson\u2019s successor as Britain\u2019s ambassador to the US. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Christian-Turner.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82502,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82500\/revisions\/82502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}