{"id":77931,"date":"2026-04-28T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/u-k-ambassador-in-leaked-remarks-said-the-one-country-with-a-special-relationship-with-the-u-s-is-probably-israel\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:50:00","slug":"u-k-ambassador-in-leaked-remarks-said-the-one-country-with-a-special-relationship-with-the-u-s-is-probably-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/u-k-ambassador-in-leaked-remarks-said-the-one-country-with-a-special-relationship-with-the-u-s-is-probably-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. ambassador, in leaked remarks, said the &#8220;one country&#8221; with a &#8220;special relationship&#8221; with the U.S. is &#8220;probably Israel&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Ambassador to the U.S., Sir Christian Turner, said in February, before the U.S. and Israel launched their joint war with Iran, that to him it seemed the &#8220;only country&#8221; to have a &#8220;special relationship&#8221; with the United States was &#8220;probably Israel.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Turner made the remarks to a group of British high-school age students visiting the U.S. A recording of the comments was obtained by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/d4bfac8a-37a4-4409-ac03-a31d41b08e48?emailId=5deedab8-359b-4d5b-9082-c221d894eaaa&amp;segmentId=ce31c7f5-c2de-09db-abdc-f2fd624da608&amp;syn-25a6b1a6=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Financial Times<\/a> and reported by the newspaper on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Turner also told the students he considered it &#8220;extraordinary&#8221; that the scandal over the late sex offender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/jeffrey-epstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> had &#8220;brought down a senior member of the royal family [<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/former-prince-andrew-arrested-epstein-files-suspected-misconduct-public-office\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/a><\/span>], a British ambassador to Washington [<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/peter-mandelson-arrested-former-uk-ambassador-to-us-epstein-files\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Peter Mandelson<\/a><\/span>], potentially the prime minister [<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/epstein-peter-mandelson-keir-starmer-uk-prime-minister-pressure\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Keir Starmer<\/a><\/span>], and yet here in the U.S., it really hasn&#8217;t touched anybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Turner said that he didn&#8217;t like the term &#8220;special relationship,&#8221; coined by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the wake of World War II, to describe the U.S.-U.K. bond, calling it &#8220;quite nostalgic&#8221; and &#8220;backwards-looking,&#8221; according to the FT.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there is probably one country that has a special relationship with the United States,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and that is probably Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CBS News has not reviewed the audio of his remarks, but the British government has not denied their authenticity.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to CBS News, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office said Turner&#8217;s remarks were &#8220;private, informal comments made to a group of U.K. sixth-form students visiting the U.S. in early February. They are certainly not any reflection of the UK Government&#8217;s position.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Turner did tell the students, who would have been mostly 16 and 17 years old in that grade level, that U.K.-U.S. ties were &#8220;so strong,&#8221; citing &#8220;a deep history and affinity between us. Particularly on defense and security, we are intertwined.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His private remarks were made public as King Charles III and Queen Camila <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/king-charles-trump-address-congress-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">paid a formal state visit<\/a><\/span> to the U.S., being welcomed at the White House by President Trump ahead of an address by the monarch to a joint session of the U.S. Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The royal visit has been seen widely as a bid by the U.K. government to ease transatlantic ties, after Mr. <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/trump-iran-war-strait-hormuz-ceasefire-pakistan-peace-talks-israel-lebanon\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Trump&#8217;s repeated bashing of Prime Minister Keir Starmer<\/a><\/span>, whom the American leader has accused of failing to support the Iran war effort.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer has also 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