Miliband's starter for 10
In a speech to Chatham House the new foreign secretary, David Miliband has scrapped the FCO’s 10 priorities in favour of focusing on extremism, radicalisation and conflict on the one hand, climate change and the EU on the other; While calling for better coordination across the FCO and other departments on particular countries and challenges.
This is welcome news, but the FCO had been very busy lately reorganizing to focus on the 10 Cabinet-endorsed International Priorities, and this has meant, according to the Permanent Secretary Sir Peter Ricketts, going through a profound transformation. So I wonder how the news of scrapping the priorities (which has seen the department move to a matrix structure) will be received by the UK’s diplomatic community?
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