British authorities have announced that they will open an investigation into the media leak of diplomatic cables in which the British ambassador to the US stated, among other things, that US President Donald Trump is incompetent and solely responsible for the poor functioning of his administration.
"An official investigation into that leak will be opened," said last night an unnamed spokesman for the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who did not dispute the credibility of those diplomatic letters.
The head of British diplomacy, Jeremy Hunt, distanced himself from the dispatch of the British ambassador, Kim Derock.
"It is important to say that the ambassador is doing his job and giving honest reports and personal views about the situation in the country where he is staying, and these are not the views of the British government or mine," Hunt said.
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"We still believe that the administration of Donald Trump is very effective and the best possible friend of Great Britain on the international stage," said Hunt, who is one of the candidates for British prime minister.
Documents published in Sunday's edition of Britain's Mail newspaper contain highly critical comments from Ambassador Deroch about the state of Trump's government, providing a rare glimpse into how a senior British diplomat sees the government of Britain's closest ally.
"We really do not believe that this administration will become significantly more normal, less dysfunctional, less unpredictable, less torn by factions, less diplomatically clumsy and incompetent," Derok wrote in one of a series of documents leaked from 2017 to today.
Trump commented that Deroch "doesn't serve Great Britain well" and that he is not a "big fan of the man".
Derok (65) is one of the most experienced diplomats who was appointed ambassador in January 2016 after Trump's election victory.
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