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US President Donald Trump has demanded the termination of the UK’s ambassador to the US. The former US national security advisor John Bolton said that leaked cables showed the diplomat criticizing President Trump. Bolton claimed that Trump ordered Kim Darroch to be made to leave Washington. He informed The Daily Telegraph and said, “Trump called me and said get him out of here. I mean at like seven in the morning or six in the morning. I was at the office but even for Trump that was early”. Bolton also informed in a subsequent phone call with the UK’s top civil servant, Sir Mark Sedwill, and said, “Things are going to get worse unless you can figure out how to get him out”.

Point to be noted that Lord Darroch quit the post, just after 3 days. The row exploded in July 2019 after leaked diplomatic cables showed Lord Darroch had written memos to officials in London describing President Trump as incompetent, inept, and radiating insecurity, and labeling his administration as uniquely dysfunctional. Bolton served as the White House national security adviser from 2018 to 2019. He said, “The hardest US-UK issue really was when some of the cables back from the UK ambassador became public. He added, “I called Sir Mark Sedwill. It was out in the press in Britain, obviously, everybody knew about it. I said this isn’t going to end well, you’ve got to pull him out”.

Bolton said, “He didn’t want to do it obviously. And I said I understand why you don’t want to do it. I’m just saying we’re at a point here where things are going to get worse unless you can figure out how to get him out. So that dragged on for a couple of days until I think they finally figured this was not a plus for anybody and then withdrew him”. President Trump’s stance (as described by former US officials) is said to have been that it was unacceptable and insulting for Lord Darroch to remain in post after his critical comments. The diplomat’s resignation came soon after Boris Johnson declined to say whether he would keep him as ambassador if he won.