A new book about the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has highlighted a loss of institutional confidence and its failure to fulfil the role of interpreting and passing matters abroad back to London.

Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles explains just how far he thinks it is really lagging behind.

Former editor of the Telegraph Charles Moore and former British ambassador Sir Richard Dalton debate whether the FCO can still attract the best people to its posts.

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