Sentences with phrase «foreign office mandarin»

Finney, who has been in remission from cancer of the prostate for several years, will play a Foreign Office mandarin with powers over the Secret Intelligence Service, described to me as a reasonably big role and full of class.

Mr Geidt, a former Foreign Office mandarin, was briefed to observe proceedings and keep the Queen informed.

It later emerged that the Royal Visits Committee is chaired by Foreign Office mandarin Sir Simon McDonald, and is made up civil servants representing the Queen, Prince Charles, Prince William and the prime minister.

These days, it's unusual for a senior Foreign Office mandarin not to publish his memoirs criticising the government of his day and the FCO.

Robert Renwick, a former Foreign Office mandarin, worked closely with Margaret Thatcher and his A Journey with Margaret Thatcher: Foreign Policy under the Iron Lady (Biteback # 20) is a personal assessment of her successes and failures.

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The new structures, which include the appointment of former Foreign and Commonwealth Office mandarin Sir Peter Ricketts as a US - style national security advisor, are to secure for the government a closer hold on strategy across a broad front