The former British ambassador to the US, who has repeatedly spoken out in favor of President Donald Trump, was brutally attacked on the London tube. The incident has prompted speculation that the assault was \u201cpolitically motivated.\u201d<\/b>
\n74-year-old Christopher Meyer, who served as British ambassador to the United States from 1997 to 2003, was admitted to St Mary\u2019s hospital in Paddington with injuries to his left eye, nose and lip. An extremely graphic photo of him in a hospital bed showed his face covered with blood and his eye swollen.
\u201cHe looks terrible. His left eye is like a golf ball and bleeding, the nose looks like it could be broken. I\u2019m absolutely shocked by the level of the brutality. They really beat him. It\u2019s appalling. He hasn\u2019t had an x-ray yet. He doesn\u2019t remember anything. The first thing he remembers is the police,\u201d his wife, Baroness Meyer told The Times.
In wake of the attack, two teenagers have been arrested over the brutal assault, a spokesman for the British Transport Police stated.
\u201cA 16-year-old boy from Hillingdon and a 15-year-old girl from Croydon were both arrested on suspicion of assault occasioning grievous bodily harm. They have been released under investigation while enquiries into the incident continue,\u201d he said.
Even though police suspect that Meyer became the target of a robbery at Victoria station in London, his wife said that the perpetrators took nothing. She said that at first she thought the assault, which took place a day before President Donald Trump\u2019s first official visit to the UK, dogged by mass protests, was \u201cpolitically motivated.\u201d
\u201cAt first I thought that the attack was politically motivated. He is opinionated, and sometimes people have different opinions, but the police told me they believe that it is more likely that they might have wanted to rob him. Nothing was taken, but the transport police intervened quickly,\u201d she elaborated.
I have been inundated by well wishing messages and emails. Thank you to all who have sent them and thank you @BTP and @LAS_JRU for all your help. @SirSocks will be deeply touched. London is a fantastic city. We need to pull our energies to keep it that way but make it safer.
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage also echoed Lady Meyer\u2019s views, suggesting on Twitter that the attack was politically motivated.
Thoughts with former British ambassador to the US, Sir Christopher Meyer, who was brutally attacked yesterday. He has been doing a lot of media about how important the Trump visit is. Police say it looks like a robbery \u2014 we\u2019ll see. https:\/\/t.co\/XS1MyfoAFY
Hours before the attack, the 74-year-old diplomat had penned an op-ed for The Times in which he warned that UK Prime Minister Theresa May would be left \u201cto pick up the pieces\u201d of any fallout from POTUS\u2019 attendance at the NATO summit in Brussels.
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In a separate piece for The Independent, he wrote that the US \u201cis our single most important partner and ally,\u201d while Trump \u201cis its democratically elected leader,\u201d whether the Brits liked it or not.
\u201cWith all this is mind, May\u2019s meeting with Trump could \u2013 perhaps should be one of the most consequential Anglo-American summits since 1945,\u201d Meyer wrote.<\/p>\n

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