UK agrees to grant full diplomatic status to EU ambassador after lengthy post-Brexit dispute

Britain FINALLY agrees to grant full diplomatic status to the EU’s ambassador in London after fears the post-Brexit row would poison the UK’s relations with Brussels UK and EU agreed Brussels’ ambassador in London will get full diplomatic status Agreement made during meeting between Dominic Raab and EU’s Josep Borrell Agreement should resolve long-running Brexit … Read more

Britain agrees to grant full diplomatic status to EU’s ambassador

Britain FINALLY agrees to grant full diplomatic status to the EU’s ambassador in London after fears the post-Brexit row would poison the UK’s relations with Brussels UK and EU agreed Brussels’ ambassador in London will get full diplomatic status Agreement made during meeting between Dominic Raab and EU’s Josep Borrell Agreement should resolve long-running Brexit … Read more

Britain to grant full diplomatic status to EU’s ambassador

Britain is set to grant full diplomatic status to the European Union‘s first ambassador to the UK, it emerged today. João Vale de Almeida took up the role in February last year after Brexit was confirmed, but he was not given the same status as other ambassadors. Foreign Office sources now say the move had … Read more

F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton realises he needs to be more ‘diplomatic’ in racism fight

F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton admits he might have been wrong to ’embarrass people’ by calling out the sport’s big names in his fight against racism – and now realises he needs to be more ‘diplomatic’ Lewis Hamilton admits he was wrong to ’embarrass people’ in his racism fight The F1 world champion now knows … Read more

HENRY DEEDES witnesses the Education Secretary causing diplomatic carnage

Doubtless you are familiar with those disaster movies in which a doomed jet plane, engines aflame, spirals towards an unforgiving ocean. Cut to the cockpit where we find our pilot pawing helplessly at the controls. His teeth clenched, his eyes bulging. Sweat cascading down both cheeks. This is the face Downing Street handlers pull whenever … Read more

Harry Dunn’s ‘killer’ Anne Sacoolas DID have diplomatic immunity, High Court rules

Harry Dunn’s parents have today lost their High Court battle against the Foreign Office over whether their son’s alleged killer had diplomatic immunity. Mr Dunn, 19, died when his motorbike collided with a car being driven on the wrong side of the road by American Anne Sacoolas outside RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, on August 27 last … Read more

Harry Dunn: Anne Sacoolas WASN’T entitled to diplomatic immunity

Harry Dunn’s alleged killer Anne Sacoolas was never entitled to diplomatic immunity while her husband was working at an RAF airbase, the High Court has heard. Lawyers representing Mr Dunn’s family say a 1995 waiver agreed between the US and UK meant administrative and technical staff at RAF Croughton did not have diplomatic immunity beyond … Read more

Foreign Office kept Harry Dunn’s parents ‘in the dark’ about Anne Sacoolas’s diplomatic immunity

Harry Dunn’s alleged killer Anne Sacoolas was never entitled to diplomatic immunity while her husband was working at an RAF airbase, the High Court has heard. Lawyers representing Mr Dunn’s family say a 1995 waiver agreed between the US and UK meant administrative and technical staff at RAF Croughton did not have diplomatic immunity beyond … Read more

Civil servant arrested over leak of diplomatic cables gets released on bail 

Civil servant arrested over leak of US ambassador Kim Darroch’s diplomatic cables calling Donald Trump ‘inept’ is released on bail Civil servant was arrested on suspicion of leaking explosive diplomatic cables  Counter terrorist officers from the Met swooped on the official’s flat on Tuesday  The civil servant is believed to work at the Department for … Read more

US-Israeli delegation arrives in Bahrain ahead of official establishing diplomatic relations

A joint American-Israeli delegation landed in Bahrain Sunday, where officials will be signing a number of bilateral agreements following an announcement last month to normalize relations. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s national security adviser, Meir Ben-Shabbat, led the delegation that flew out of Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport on … Read more