Uk Diplomacy: Year Plan and Industries Hunt

uk diplomacy: But we must never close our eyes to the approaches and skills of other industries, according to The Guardian. Hunt will also announce a drive to double the number of British diplomats who can speak a foreign language from 500 to 1,000 as part of a 10-year plan to reinvigorate UK diplomacy after Brexit. The initiative will include opening up some ambassador roles to external candidates, with the foreign secretary due to tell an audience at the Policy Exchange thinktank The strength of our network is its professionalism, which has given us what I believe is the finest diplomatic service in the world. In his speech on Wednesday, Hunt will say he wants to project the UK as the invisible chain that links the world's democracies . He will say that in the face of a global threat to democracy, the UK must expand British diplomacy. He added There may be one or two posts where someone who is perhaps chief executive of a FTSE company, who has got strong links with another country, could do a brilliant job representing the UK, building up our trade with another country. Asked whether the move to bring in people from outside the civil service was a step towards a US-style system that allowed cronyism, Hunt told the There will be absolutely no conflict of interest allowed and anyone applying for these jobs will apply through normal Foreign Office processes so we can make sure that proper independence is protected. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.