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SOLOMON HUGHES takes a look at the history of the business ambassadors set up under David Cameron, as Jeremy Hunt prepares a similar scheme to put his hand-picked spivs in the place of actual diplomats
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt speaks at the Policy Exchange, London
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NEW Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt says he will “broaden the pool of talent we tap into for our ambassadors” by getting “businesspeople” into “key ambassadorial posts.” What could possibly go wrong with Hunt’s plan to hire ambassadors from “outside the Civil Service”?
Well the government already did a dry run for this by hiring a bunch of “business ambassadors,” and it looks pretty bad.
They are sort of junior ambassadors, rather than the full ambassadors in Hunt’s new plan. They are members of the business ambassador Network, a group of government-appointed businesspeople who lead trade delegations, have “1-2-1 meetings with senior government ministers” and host “high-level incoming visitors.” If Hunt’s new business ambassadors are anything like the old ones, we are in trouble.
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