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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Zoe Hitch |Natalie Ktena |John Harris |Kiran Stacey |Kim Darroch
After weeks of cosying up to Donald Trump, the UK has still been hit with 10% tariffs on exports to the US, which is bad news for the economy and the public finances. So, how tough could things get for Britain? And how should Keir Starmer’s government respond? John Harris asks the former UK ambassador to the US Kim Darroch and the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee. • Send your questions and feedback to [email protected]
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Kim Darroch |John Ashton
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
msn.com | Kim Darroch
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Kim Darroch
Friday 20 January 2017, Washington DC: overcast skies with the threat of rain for the inauguration of the new president, Donald J Trump. All of Washington was there: former presidents, senior politicians, supreme court justices and, in the seats furthest from the action, the Washington diplomatic corps.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
msn.com | Kim Darroch
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
msn.com | Kim Darroch
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Kim Darroch
Wednesday 9 November 2016: a misty, drizzly day in Washington DC, an overwhelmingly Democrat city in trauma after the shock victory of Donald Trump in the election the previous day. A Washington rarity, a declared Trump supporter, was among a group of guests for lunch in the residence that day. I took him aside and asked whether Trump would be as radical and disruptive as the giants of American political journalism were predicting. “Not at all,” he said: “I know the guy.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Kim Darroch
In April 1966, according to legend, a chance encounter in a traffic jam on Sunset Boulevard led to the formation of the rock group Buffalo Springfield. They took their name from a steamroller built by the Buffalo-Springfield Roller Company, whose factory was located in Springfield, Ohio. In a brief career, they produced some great music, including one all-time classic, the protest song For What It’s Worth. Two of its members, Neil Young and Stephen Stills, went on to superstardom.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Kim Darroch
The US public has long doubted that Mr Biden, now 81, has the physical resilience to serve another term Credit: Getty/Kevin Dietsch Joe Biden seems to have been around forever.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Kim Darroch
Sir Kim DarrochJuly 12, 2024 at 4:04 PM·3 min readJoe Biden seems to have been around forever. He was born in November 1942, as the tide of war was changing, with British victory in El Alamein and the Red Army encircling the German Wehrmacht in Stalingrad. Biden was elected to the US Senate just as the Watergate scandal ignited. He knew tragedy: his first wife and daughter were killed in a 1973 car crash, and his eldest son died from cancer in 2015.
