Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Can the Civil Service survive Brexit? Trump

Can the Civil Service survive Brexit?

 

Boris has a battle on his hands to reform it

To put it mildly, Nigel Farage didn’t hit it off with Sir Kim Darroch. When Our Man in Washington (for the time being) was Britain’s envoy to the EU, he came to see the then Ukip leader in his office and “compromised himself in a rather devastating way”, as Mr Farage described it in the Telegraph on Monday.
“During our conversation, I said to him: ‘You’re a professional civil servant, aren’t you supposed to be neutral?’ He replied: ‘No. It’s our policy that the European Union is a good thing.’ I asked him to leave. I couldn’t see the point in even continuing to have the conversation.”
  In this file photo taken on June 4, 2019 Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May and US President Donald Trump make their way to the Foreign and Commonwealth office for a press conference in London, on the second day of their three-day State Visit to the UK. - President Donald Trump assailed Britain's US ambassador as a "pompous fool" and slammed outgoing premier Theresa May's "foolish" policies in a second straight day of virulent attacks triggered by the leak of unflattering diplomatic cables. The missives threaten to plunge Washington and London into an unprecedented diplomatic crisis with uncertain outcome, and have landed their author, British Ambassador Kim Darroch -- and by default his prime minister -- in Trump's crosshairs."The wacky Ambassador that the UK foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy," Trump tweeted July 9, 2019, mirroring a furious barrage of insults the day before

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