LONDON: Britain’s ambassador to the United States resigned Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) after being branded a fool and made a diplomatic nobody by US President Donald Trump, following the leak of the envoy’s unflattering opinions about the US administration.

Storm clouds gathered over the trans-Atlantic relationship as veteran diplomat Kim Darroch said he could no longer do his job in Washington after Trump cut off all contact with the representative of one of America’s closest allies.

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