British Foreign Office

The Livingston MP raised the difficulties experienced by Ms Maxwell's loved ones as she called for better support from the Foreign Office following the deaths abroad of British nationals in suspicious circumstances. Bardell also highlighted the case of 38-year-old Julie Pearson, who was found dead in Israel ...

Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, will make the first official UK royal visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories during the northern summer. A Kensington ... UK Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt said it was an "important and unique opportunity to promote diplomatic and cultural ties in the region".

The Duke of Cambridge will become the first member of the royal family to make an official visit to the Occupied Palestinian Territories this summer. In a significant ... Alistair Burt, the Foreign Office minister, said it was an “important and unique opportunity to promote diplomatic and cultural ties in the region”.

The Duke of Cambridge will visit Israel, Jordan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories this summer, Kensington Palace has announced, as he becomes the first Royal to make a fullscale official trip to the Holy Land. The Duke, who will travel without his wife and children, will make his first visit to the Middle ...

The British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson appears to have told the UK Prime Minister Theresa May "it is wrong to see the task as maintaining 'no ... The letter, entitled "The Northern Ireland/Ireland border - the Facilitated Solution", accompanies a "concept note" that "draws on UK Foreign Office expertise".

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has become the latest government minister to enlist in the 'war on plastic', ordering the Foreign Office to lead a new ... Johnson yesterday announced the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) will eliminate avoidable single-use plastics from its UK operations by the end of ...

The only western construction worker killed in the building of World Cup stadiums in Qatar was provided with substandard equipment by managers who should have known the risks of a “downright dangerous” environment, a British coroner has said. Zac Cox, 40, died in January 2017 after he fell 40 metres ...

The UK has urged Russia to put pressure on the Syrian regime to observe a UN-backed ceasefire in Eastern Ghouta and allow humanitarian access to ... After meeting Russian ambassador Alexander Yakovenko, Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan said brief humanitarian pauses were "no substitute for a ...

One former Conservative Foreign Office minister said the disconnect between what the British people still expected the diplomatic service to do, and “the unbelievably skimpy” resources at its disposal revealed something deeper about the UK's inability to adjust to its place in the world, and the global spread ...

So it was almost a return to my youthful interests when I was offered the post of foreign minister and after that, as party leader. Later, I was the party's foreign policy spokesperson until I was elected Speaker of Parliament. It was also with that in mind that the foreign office subsequently approached me and asked whether I'd ...