Mandelson blasts omnishambles over Trump’s red box ‘like The Thick Of It’

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Britain’s ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson
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Peter Mandelson went full Malcolm Tucker lashing out at the ministerial’incompetence’ over Donald Trump’s gift of a red despatch box.

The disgraced Lord described the shambolic process for securing a ministerial-style box coveted by the US President as like something from the BBC comedy The Thick of It in a series of emails released by the Government.

He said the ‘saga goes on’ in an email to the Prime Minister’s then chief of st...