The United Kingdom’s ambassador said that the United States’s “special relationship” was with Israel rather than its mother country, in leaked comments that have sent shockwaves around Washington, D.C.
U.K. Ambassador Sir Christian Turner, who took over from the scandal-ridden Peter Mandelson, has found himself in a scandal of his own after several controversial remarks made to U.K. students were leaked to the Financial Times. In a series of comments made in mid-February, Turner voiced his surprise that more U.S. figures hadn’t been taken down by the Epstein scandal, and suggested that Prime Minister Keir Starmer was “on the ropes” over the scandal. His most controversial comments, however, were those downplaying the U.K.’s storied relationship with his host country.
