Minister: Mandelson position in US is really important

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Home Office minister Mike Tapp says the future of UK ambassador to Washington Lord Mandelson is “a decision for the prime minister” but stresses his “leadership and diplomacy” with the US “is really important”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00This is a decision for the Prime Minister, who of course has said at this point that he is behind Peter Manson

00:07in that he has confidence in his ability as ambassador.

00:10And we've got to look at what that means.

00:12We've had this massive trade deal with the United States which has benefited workers here.

00:18And we've also got the threat from Russia, which we've seen in the last few days potentially escalate in some way.

00:24So that leadership and diplomacy with the United States is really important.

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