MI6 chief Richard Moore in mix to be Sir Keir Starmer’s next US Ambassador in blow to Peter Mandelson

THE caput of MI6 is being considered arsenic Sir Keir Starmer’s caller antheral successful Washington, The Sun tin reveal.

James Bond’s astir namesake Richard Moore is successful the premix to beryllium our next Ambassador to the United States arsenic Britain prepares for the instrumentality of Donald Trump.

The respected vocation spy and diplomat is the latest precocious illustration sanction to beryllium linked to the prestigious relation alongside New Labour grandee Peter Mandelson.

Downing Street has until the caller twelvemonth to denote a successor to Dame Karen Pierce amid aggravated speculation connected the champion campaigner to grip the incoming Trump White House.

Lord Mandelson was yesterday trounced by erstwhile Tory enactment person William Hague successful the predetermination to beryllium the caller Chancellor of Oxford University but has been tipped for the US occupation for months.

However, aggregate good placed sources said Sir Richard had entered the race for the Washington occupation astatine the eleventh hour.

Insiders accidental “the tide is moving against Lord Mandelson” with Sir Keir understood to beryllium seeking a much accepted diplomatic appointment.

Codenamed “C”, Moore has been the caput of the Secret Intelligence Service since July 2020 bringing to a adjacent a accepted 4 twelvemonth term.

He was antecedently governmental manager astatine the Foreign Office and a erstwhile ambassador to arguable NATO state Turkey.

Both authorities and information sources declined to remark past night, but insiders said Sir Richard’s sanction was successful the frame.

A keen golfer and amateur frogman, Sir Richard has been the astir nationalist facing spy main successful the usually secretive relation heading up Britain’s overseas quality networks.

Unlike erstwhile holders of the converted “C” relation helium is progressive connected societal media and has mused publically astir his emotion of Turkish carpets and porcelain.

The latest twist successful the race came arsenic Trump allies deed retired astatine Sir Keir implicit dithering connected a warfare crimes warrant for Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu.

The PM  volition person “hell to pay” if helium helps apprehension Benjamin Netanyahu, a starring Trump state tells The Sun.

The International Criminal Court issued a warfare crimes warrant for the Israeli person past week with the PM suggesting helium could beryllium nicked if helium came to London.

But present a almighty Washington fig and person of the President-Elect warns doing truthful would spot Britain chopped retired by the caller White House

Dr Kevin Roberts, the brag of the influential Heritage Foundation, deed out: “there volition beryllium hellhole to wage for immoderate planetary person buying into this bulls**t”.

The Washington-based deliberation vessel has adjacent ties to the incoming Trump medication and is helping signifier policy.

Last week the ICC was branded a “kangaroo court" past week aft it accused Israel of breaking planetary law and warfare crimes.

Chief Prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan ruled that Mr Netanyahu should beryllium locked up if helium travels to immoderate country, specified arsenic the UK, enactment to the overseas court’s jurisdiction.

Mr Netanyahu deed backmost to marque the ICC a “biased and discriminatory governmental body" arsenic helium raged astatine the ruling.

But No10 declared Sir Keir “respects the independency of the ICC”.

Downing Street said it volition present beryllium up to home courts to marque a last determination connected whether Britain formally endorses the decision.

Meanwhile David Lammy has said helium volition beryllium “gracious” to Donald Trump, arsenic helium was challenged connected his erstwhile comments astir the incoming US president.

The Foreign Secretary told the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee that helium had “enjoyed” gathering Mr Trump with the Prime Minister recently, saying: “He was a precise gracious big successful Trump Tower.

“The PM and I had a bully meal, we had bully discussion, we had a laughter successful places and I look guardant to moving with him.”

Asked whether helium regretted erstwhile comments successful which helium described Mr Trump arsenic a “tyrant” and a “woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath”, Mr Lammy said: “I americium not looking back, I americium looking forward.”

He added: “I volition bash everything imaginable connected behalf of the British radical successful narration to our nationalist interests, and that is moving with our adjacent ally. And conscionable arsenic helium has been gracious to me, I volition beryllium gracious to him."