Following the launch of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office this morning, Downing Street has formally announced the following ministerial appointments:

• Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, and First Secretary of State.
• Rt Hon James Cleverly MP as a Minister of State.
• Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park as a Minister of State (jointly with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs).
• Nigel Adams MP as a Minister of State.
• Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon as a Minister of State.
• James Duddridge MP as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State.
• Wendy Morton MP as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State.
• Baroness Sugg CBE as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State.

Her Majesty has also relieved Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP from her Government role as Secretary of State for International Development. Watch this space at the next reshuffle…

This is being shared on WhatsApp by former (and I think current DfID) staff.
But is it a tribute to or mickey take of the new combined FCDO? pic.twitter.com/C5e4iYqcBj

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) September 2, 2020

HuffPo’s Paul Waugh has shared an absolute gem this morning doing the rounds on civil service WhatsApp groups. Apparently produced by a creative former DFID civil servant to celebrate this morning’s birth of the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office. F.C.D.O. becomes the new Y.M.C.A…

Offline celebrations include a new plaque being officially put up on the FCDO building, replacing the original sign’s classic typeface with civil-service-standard Arial.

Yuck.