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Hammond visits Cuba for talks on US trade diktats
PHILIP HAMMOND will make diplomatic history today when he jets into Havana, becoming the first British secretary of state to visit Cuba in more than 40 years.
Junior Foreign Office ministers were dispatched to the island under the last Labour government in 2005 and more recently during the Con-Dem coalition in October 2014.
But the last senior minister to visit the socialist country was Peter Shore, trade secretary in Harold Wilson’s Labour government, in 1975.
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