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He cant have been up very long this morning before President Donald Trump took to twitter to write more personal comments attacking the uk ambassador to washington Sir Kim Darroch. a wacky ambassador, he says not someone we are thrilled with, he adds and a very stupid guy. More of the same, you might say after his comments yesterday, but as mr trump was tweeting the embassy was cancelling a schedule meeting with the president s daughter and advisor ivanka trump. As the leak inquiry continues over here into who leaked sir kims controversial comments on the Trump White House theres a nagging concern is the uks diplomatic representative in the United States now being prevented from doing his job . Our Diplomatic CorrespondentJames Robbins reports. Thank you for your continued hospitality. The emir of qatar thanks to donald trump at a white house dinner last night, you would think the British AmbassadorSir Kim Darroch was not there. Originally invited, then warned off attending by the administration. After sir kims highly critical description of the administration as dysfunctional, faction ridden, clumsy and inept. One of several secret assessments made for whitehall across two years and now spectacularly leaked. The great leak of the cache of documents has stung him to the quick and i think he is also deeply irritated by theresa mays full faith and support in Sir Kim Darroch. Put those two things together and from his point of view, youve got a toxic combination which has led to this shower of tweets. And the president tweeting is in century and the president tweeting is incendiary even by his own standards. Condemning theresa may for what he calls the brexit mess she and her representatives have created. I told her how it should be done but she decided to go another way. Before the president turns on Sir Kim Darroch, i dont know the ambassador but he is not liked and we will not deal with him. Sir kim darroch seems safe in his post as ambassador, theresa may has repeated her support for him. And in whitehall, across government leak inquiry is under way. Could the messages have been hacked . That would be a devastating indictment of security or was this a political plot inside the system . Whoever has done it has taken a very great care across a couple of years political plot inside the system . Whoever has done it has taken a very great care across a couple of years to do it, to fill it with the juiciest bits from these diplomatic telegrams, package them up and hand them to a journalist. I suspect its going to be quite hard to find out who that person is. But now theres a new tweet from the president. Person is. But now theres a new tweet from the president. This time done and troll calls Sir Kim Darroch a wacky ambassador and a very stupid guy and repeats his criticism this time done and troll calls Sir Kim Darroch a wacky ambassador and a very stupid guy and repeats his criticism of theresa mays entire brexit negotiation. There is no question uk relations with the trouble white house are now intensely strain. The president himself is rejoicing in the fact theresa may will soon be gone. Her successor will have to decide how to repair the damage. James robbins, bbc news. Live to washington and our correspondent nick bryant. I would use the word may be thermonuclear. This is really strong stuff from President Trump. I often think in my minds eye of two and ten eye on the roof of the Foreign Office delicately calibrated to pick up office delicately calibrated to pick up the slightest shift in the special relationship. Two and ten eye. Attenae. Donald trump has doubled down on his attack notjust on Sir Kim Darroch, a wacky ambassador, a very stupid guy, a pompous full. Actually Sir Kim Darroch is refreshingly down to earth under straightforward guide. He renews his attack on theresa may and approach to brexit and donald trump calls it a disaster. Sir kim darroch was supposed to be at a meeting between a banker trump supposed to be at a meeting between a bankertrump ivanka trump supposed to be at a meeting between a banker trump ivanka trump and liam fox later today. He has decided not to go to that meeting and not put ivanka trump in a difficult position. It is a case of wanting to be the adult not in the room. He made this decision ahead of the statement. You can call me cynical. Is there something going on over there that President Trump does not wa nt there that President Trump does not want is to be talking about . there that President Trump does not want is to be talking about . I would not call you cynical at all. I think thatis not call you cynical at all. I think that is a pretty interesting insight because there is a big story in america right now the donald trump really does not want to be talking about. It concernsjeffrey ebbe steyn who was charged in new york with sex trafficking. Donald trump does not want to talk about it because he is a friend of geoffrey epstein. As is bill clinton. Jeffrey epstein. The release of this lea k jeffrey epstein. The release of this leak is not dominating the news over here as it is back home. That speaks of how asymmetrical the special relationship really is. It is far more important to the uk than the usa and it always has been. It is not getting the play here, the story that it not getting the play here, the story thatitis not getting the play here, the story that it is obviously on your side of the atlantic. That said, i know you attend those dinner parties and all the ambassadors of air and all gossiping. Who will the ambassadors from others countries be siding with . What sir kim wrote in his e mails you would not thought would be dramatically different from what many diplomats would send back to their capitals. The french ambassador here till recently on twitter was highly critical often of the administration and are very snide and elegantly french way. You can imagine his cables back to paris would have been if not as strong more strong. There will be a feeling that Sir Kim Darroch was doing his job. He is paid to give candid assessments of what is happening in washington. What we have read in his secret cables is essentially a Foreign Office version of what we have read in the newspapers virtually every day and books such as fire and theory. I think a lot of ambassadors in washington will be siding with sir kim and feeling very sorry for him. We have an extraordinary situation where britains man in washington has been sent to coventry. Well, this story is likely to be raised in tonights tv debate between the two conservative leadership candidates. Our chief Political Correspondent vicki young is in salford where that debate will take place. Vicki young is in salford where that they vicki young is in salford where that will both facet what they will both face the question of what will you do now . This response from donald trump does feel different to other things he has done. We are used to him taking to twitter and lashing out and being incredibly sensitive to any kind of criticism but this does feel like a different level. And although we have got used to all of that i think it is pretty astonishing because of the personal nature of the attack on the personal nature of the attack on the way he has broadened it from the ambassador to take an theresa may as well. Someone who some would say mistakenly decided to invite donald trump toa mistakenly decided to invite donald trump to a state visit on her first meeting with him. She really went out of her way to woo him and some would say this is the thanks she is getting in return. The response from the uk government, that has not been much of one. They have talked about the leaks saying they are u nfortu nate the leaks saying they are unfortunate but Sir Kim Darroch was just doing hisjob. They have not responded to the personal attack on theresa may and the way she is handling brexit and for her to be the size like this by an american president is incredible and we will see how she will respond and given she only has two or three weeks on thejob she only has two or three weeks on the job maybe there she only has two or three weeks on thejob maybe there is she only has two or three weeks on the job maybe there is a little she only has two or three weeks on thejob maybe there is a little bit for that would like to respond but it is not really her style. It will be discussed tonight, jeremy hunt, the foreign secretary and former foreign secretary Boris Johnson. They have a massive headache because they have to decide whether Sir Kim Darroch stays in his role until january even though he has been ostracised by donald trump or do they decide that they cannot be bullied by the president so we will see what their responses. Boris johnson has been in manchester on a visit here ahead of the debate tonight. He was asked about this and talked mainly in response about brexit. I have got a Good Relationship with the white house and no embarrassment in saying that. I think it is very important that we have a very strong relationship with oui have a very strong relationship with our most important ally, the United States is and has been and will be for the foreseeable future are number one trade and military friend and partner. We will continue to stress the importance of that relationship. Is the right to criticise the Prime Minister and the way the brexit negotiations have been handled . Way the brexit negotiations have been handled . I myself have said some pretty critical things about the brexit negotiations so far. That is one of the reasons i am standing tonight. One of the reasons im putting myself forward. I think there is a chance of doing things differently and break away from an old can kicking approach. Now its a time to really get a grip on this and stop being so defeatist in our approach to the eu negotiations and we need to be a lot more positive about our country and what it can do. Vicky, this debate tonight will interesting to you and me is addressing a court of people who have perhaps already bloated and centre alex papers back. The ballot papers will have gone out and some will have sent them back straightaway. Conservative party members. But it is worth bearing in mind that whoever wins this contest becomes Prime Ministers straightaway so becomes Prime Ministers straightaway so it is relevant to a wider audience. Many see this as the last chance forjeremy hunt to try and turnit chance forjeremy hunt to try and turn it around. Borisjohnson very much a favourite with the tory grassroots so jeremy much a favourite with the tory grassroots sojeremy hunt much a favourite with the tory grassroots so jeremy hunt will much a favourite with the tory grassroots sojeremy hunt will be hoping in some way to trip up Boris Johnson and expose them in some way and show that he may be is not up to thejob. It will and show that he may be is not up to the job. It will be very difficult but it is the first head to head televised debate and the only one there will be so in that sense it will be fascinating to watch, not just for you and i. I know you will be tuned in. The labour leaderJeremy Corbyn, has committed his party to campaign for remain in another referendum on a conservative brexit deal or a no deal exit from the European Union challenging the next Prime Minister to put their deal to the people. The shift in the partys policy came after a meeting of the shadow cabinet this morning. But its still not clear what labour would do if the party won a general election before brexit was resolved. Our Political Correspondent nick eardley reports. Brexit has not always been easy forJeremy Corbyn, the landscape for the labour party has been farfrom simple. Party members back staying in the eu but when it comes to labour voters, the picture is more complicated. For months in here the party has tried to keep everyone happy, but road is running out. In a letter to all labour members, mr corbyn writes sometimes watching the Labour Party Brexit position evolve has been a bit like watching an oil tanker turn round, but in a meeting up there at the shadow cabinet there has been a shift agreed. Now the party will say to whoever the new Prime Minister is, you have to put your plan to the people and if they do, labour will back remain. All clear . Not quite. We still dont know what labour would campaign for any general election and whether it would back remaining if it managed to get its own brexit deal. Its entirely possible for the government, a Labour Government to put forward that this is our deal but to give a free vote to the front bench, a free vote to labour mps to campaign on what they want, its happened in the last referendum in 1975, it can happen again. Some anti brexit campaigners want Jeremy Corbyn to go further, some brexiteers will accuse the labour party of ignoring the referendum result but the party is moving in a direction of backing staying in the eu even if thejourney isnt yet complete. And nickjoins us now. There is a shift in policy but does not go as far as some would like it too in the party. Yes, what would labour do if there was a general election . What does a Labour Government say we do on the brexit issue . I have been over the road trying to find out and the simple a nswer trying to find out and the simple answer is we do not know. The reason is if you think the process to get here has been complicated, the process of putting together a labour ma nifesto process of putting together a labour manifesto is even more complicated. If you got to the point where a general election was going to happen labour would have to figure it out and it may be the party in that circumstances would say we will go back to europe and try and get another deal if that is possible. If we get another deal, something that maybe has the Customs Union nx, we might be happy with that and as a party the people might vote for that in another referendum. The reason it is complicated is labour has struggled to present a united front on this under a different wings of the party saying Different Things but increasingly the one that is winning on the one that is largest and the one that is largest in making its voice heard as the one saying that as a party labour should back another referendum. And if that happens it should campaign to stop brexit. Has that split got wider there a sense they are pulling themselves together . there a sense they are pulling themselves together . I am often confused, simon. The simple answer to that is the people who are com pletely to that is the people who are completely opposed to another referendum, this will be a hard pill to swallow. If you look at mps in the north of england whose constituents might have backed leaving the eu, they will be relu cta nt to leaving the eu, they will be reluctant to turn right now and say Jeremy Corbyn has shifted his policy toward something and we need to do the same. There are some like neil kinnock who want to stay close to the eu and say it would be anti democratic to try and reverse the result and they will not change their minds overnight. What matters now is the party leadership, the man in charge, who will see these policies through, is saying that if the next Prime Minister comes then they should put this vote to another referendum and labour will back staying and the European Union. It isa staying and the European Union. It is a long way off. We cannot stand here this afternoon and say the chances of the uk staying in the European Union have gone up massively but we can say that labour is now backing remain and that gives them a chance. 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