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What has Alan Duncan been up to in Oman?
SOLOMON HUGHES on Foreign Office Minister mysterious trip to the notoriously repressive Gulf state
Minister of State for Europe and the Americas Alan Duncan
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BRITAIN’S relationship with the repressive Gulf state of Oman is so strong that when one Foreign Office minister was invited to a private, secretive £3,000 trip by Oman’s ruler, the rest of the Foreign Office begged him to use the time to suck up to the sultan even further.
Alan Duncan is currently a Foreign Office minister for Europe and the Americas.
But the former oil trader has strong Middle East links: in 2014 Duncan was David Cameron’s special envoy to Oman.
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