Spare a thought for the mandarins over at the FCDO, whose pet project of decades – the Chagos islands giveaway – has just been blown up in the Prime Minister’s face. The FCDO had no idea that President Trump’s intervention last night was coming – a huge diplomatic failure which has put the new team at British Embassy Washington in deep doo doo…
The department’s media monitoring unit are circulating Guido’s stories concerned about future revelations from our trove of hundreds of emails relevant to the Chagos deal. Stay tuned…
Starmer was read out a list of his 13 U-turns on BBC Radio 2, to which he responded:
“Well, I am a common sense merchant.”