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Article: With respect, Ambassador: Next week the Foreign Office Show hits our TV screens. Open government? Not quite. The motive is purely diplomatic, explains Michael Sheridan

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April 20, 1994
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For a Foreign Office man, the Honourable David Gore-Booth, Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is engagingly frank. Does he believe Britain should be trading with unpleasant and oppressive Middle Eastern regimes? 'It is impossible for Britain to automatically exclude trade with anybody who can afford to buy British,' he says. 'You have to factor in the morality, but it cannot be the overriding factor because Britain has to survive by exporting.' So two fingers to the Scott inquiry, where the ambassador feels he was treated less than tenderly.

For a Foreign Office minister, even one aware of his own impending departure, the Rt Hon Tristan Garel-Jones is gloriously ...

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