Multiple members of the British government issued an apology on behalf the country to the U.S. after the UK ambassador to the U.S. called President Trump “inept” in a leaked memo.
”Contact has been made with the Trump administration, setting out our view that we believe the leak is unacceptable,” a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May told reporters Monday. “It is, of course, a matter of regret that this has happened.”
The spokesperson added that they have “full faith” in Ambassador Kim Darroch who made the comments.
UK Trade Minister Liam Fox said he would also issue an apology to Ivanka Trump.
“I will be apologizing for the fact that either our civil service or elements of our political class have not lived up to the expectations that either we have or the United States has about their behavior, which in this particular case has lapsed in a most extraordinary and unacceptable way,” Fox told BBC radio.
Fox added the comments were “unprofessional, unethical, and unpatriotic.”
Darroch said in leaked memos that Trump and his administration was “inept” and “incompetent.”
“We don’t really believe this Administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept,” he said in one of the leaked memos.
Trump responded to the memo saying his administration was “not big fans” of Darroch.
“We’ve had our little ins-and-outs with a couple of countries, and I would say that the U.K. and the ambassador has not served the U.K. well,” Trump said Sunday. “We’re not big fans of that man, and he has not served the U.K. well.”
