US President Donald Trump has criticised the UK ambassador

GBnews24 desk//

US President Donald Trump has criticised the UK ambassador who said in leaked emails that his administration was “inept”.

Mr Trump said: “The ambassador has not served the UK well, I can tell you that.”

Emails from Sir Kim Darroch said Mr Trump’s White House was “uniquely dysfunctional” and “divided”.

Trade secretary Liam Fox told the BBC the leak was “unprofessional, unethical and unpatriotic”.

He said that whoever released the emails had “maliciously” undermined the defence and security relationship with the US, “the most important global relationship that we have”.

“I hope if we can identify the individual, either the full force of internal discipline – or if necessary the law – will be brought to bear because this sort of behaviour has no place in public life,” he said.

As the Foreign Office launched an investigation into the source of the leak to the Mail on Sunday, Mr Trump told reporters in New Jersey: “We’re not big fans of that man and he has not served the UK well.

“So I can understand it and I can say things about him but I won’t bother.”

In the emails, the UK ambassador to Washington said: “We don’t really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.”

Sir Kim questioned whether this White House “will ever look competent” but also warned the US president should not be written off