Former diplomats and politicians, including David Miliband, are advocating for the replacement of the UK's Foreign Office with a new Department for International Affairs. They argue that Brexit has diminished the UK's global influence, making it a 'middle power.' The proposal aims to modernize UK foreign policy by moving away from colonial-era practices and elitism.
🔴 Former mandarins urge ministers to ‘face our historical legacy head on’ in report calling for modernisation. Read more 👇 https://t.co/v8ubtVTAJQ https://t.co/N10Z3u0Rv9
Interesting: Former diplomats lead call to replace 'elitist' Foreign Office department @CommonsIDC https://t.co/8I1SKNvAm2
Post-Brexit new-look Foreign Office should ditch 'colonial-era pictures on the walls' https://t.co/zeZoKwTSWd
Abolish 'elitist' Foreign Office, former diplomats say https://t.co/NghAukbAes
Former diplomats lead call to replace "elitist" Foreign Office https://t.co/jvDyUVWJcq
Interesting debates emerging about how a future (Labour) Government should rethink UK external affairs. Exhibit A: today’s experts paper on replacing the diplomacy-centred Foreign Office with a more skill-diverse department to lead international engagement across the piece. 1/5 https://t.co/ayJYbz6GAu
"The Foreign Office should be abolished and replaced by a new Department for International Affairs with "fewer colonial era pictures on the wall"." https://t.co/R5McDJkjqb
Former diplomats lead call to replace Foreign Office with new ministry with "fewer colonial era pictures on the wall". Yep, that'll solve everything wrong with British foreign policy and our civil service. 🙄 https://t.co/bhqgQsTUNL
Should the Foreign Office be abolished? Moazzam Malik, its former director general, is among a group of senior diplomats and officials calling for the FCO to be replaced by a new Department for International Affairs with 'fewer colonial era pictures on the wall'. #R4Today
Foreign Office ‘elitist and rooted in the past’, says new report https://t.co/QqCpUk5VvR
Foreign Office: Former diplomats lead call to replace department https://t.co/EmjbOB5ewy
The UK needs a new approach to international affairs https://t.co/Qh98mMFgoW | opinion
Excellent piece by @davidmiliband - the Tories have done enormous damage to our standing in the world. It won’t be easy to repair. But he has some good ideas about how to start. https://t.co/LBpw0P2Uvy
Brexit has made the UK a lower-status nation, says David Miliband https://t.co/oQB0WkZLjy
David Miliband goes far further than any policy outlined so far by Labour towards closer working with the EU. He said: 🔴 The UK has lost influence since Brexit to become just one of many “middle powers” in the world @DMiliband 🔴 In order to reverse the decline, the UK needed… https://t.co/r2jTuVqBTU