Keir Starmer needs to drop feud with Elon Musk NOW – & Farage offers the perfect gateway to do so, says Peter Mandelson

SIR Keir Starmer should extremity his "feud" with Elon Musk and clasp the billionaire's expertise, Britain's frontrunner to beryllium US Ambassador admitted today.

In an bonzer intervention, Labour grandee Lord Peter Mandelson insisted the PM should besides fto Nigel Farage assistance physique bridges betwixt the UK government, Donald Trump and Republican advisors.

On the Times Radio podcast How To Win An Election, the ex-cabinet curate said: "It would beryllium unwise, successful my view, for Britain to disregard Elon Musk.

"You cannot prosecute these feuds.

"You can't spend to bash it.

"We should effort and footwear it into interaction arsenic soon arsenic possible."

Since Trump's sweeping triumph this month, the Reform Leader connected aggregate occasions has offered to assistance Labour amended its fractured narration with the incoming US President.

But ministers snootily dismissed the offer, with Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Pat McFadden, adjacent telling Mr Farage: “I deliberation we’ll person our ain relationships.”

Lord Mandelson added: "You can't disregard Nigel.

"He's an elected MP, a nationalist fig and a bridgehead some to President Trump and to Elon Musk and others."

The Labour grandee is among a fistful of names being weighed up to regenerate Dame Karen Pierce arsenic Britain's apical diplomat successful Washington.

Dame Karen's posting is acceptable to expire successful January 2025 - but could beryllium extended if the PM chooses.

Alongside Lord Mandelson, Baroness Valorie Amos, Cathy Ashton and David Miliband are being considered for the apical job.