U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Woody Johnson, U.S. ambassador to Britain stand outside the new U.S. embassy in London, January 22, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville
LONDON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited the new $1 billion (£719 million) U.S. embassy in London on Monday, just days after his boss Donald Trump criticised the move to new diplomatic premises as part of a bad deal agreed by the administration of Barack Obama.
Trump earlier this month cancelled a trip to London to open the new embassy, saying he did not want to endorse a bad deal agreed by the Obama administration to sell the old one for "peanuts".
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