Of course his personal opinion has to do with diplomacy; it’s quite literally his job to form opinions on foreign politicians and report his findings back to his employer.

He ‘dropped the ball’ by having an email leaked?

Painful.

Putting his personal opinion (literal or otherwise) is his job. And if not his opinion, then who's opinion do you think he should be giving on the state of the current US administration?

The Ambassador will have spoken and been spoken to by a myriad of people from both with the Republican party, within the Democratic party and will have spoken to people who speak to people within the West wing. Plus input the UK Embassy spooks. His considered opinion is invaluable to the UK especially at a time when knowing how the US is likely to roll is important.

If our Ambassador thinks the US Govt is, in his opinion, the mutts-nuts he should report so, and if he thinks its an omni-shambles he should say so too. He's reported the later.

Once Boris getting elected, I suspect the encryptic diplomatic messages whizzing out of UK embassies will also be based on the personal opinions of a host of Foreign Ambassadors who will be informing their respective governments on Boris' Govt. They can carry on giving flattering or unflattering opinions on Boris while retaining 'good relations' with the UK providing, of course, one of their own doesn't leak those opinions to the press.

When the time comes, I want die just like my Dad - at peace and asleep.
Not screaming and terrified.
Like his passengers.

So why did he put the obvious in an email then.
Should let sleeping dogs lye.

That he did the honourable thing and resigned as he could no longer do his job is true.

What is also true is that Johnson's half baked initial support, which looked like trying to brown nose Trump, upset the rest of the civil service and caused questions to be asked. He has since gone on a face saving "I was misreported" media campaign.

Who did this and why? Stinks of Russia again to me!

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How can he say that he was misrepresented as he gave his lack of support on live TV and I was watching at the time

Strange isn't it that McCarthy's right hand man, and senior counsel, was Roy Cohn, who subsequently became Donald Trump's mentor and the man generally credited with teaching him never to apologise and to always attack your critics.

It seems that the circle has fully turned. McCarthy was passionately anti-communist. Trump sees anything even slightly pink as a threat. The difference is Russia under Putin which is now a gangster state run by a mob boss.

So Russian interference isn't red these days. It's malign interference in the western democratic systems is designed to sow dissent and make them weaker. It happened with Trump's election, whether he was involved or not being another question. It happened with Brexit and in many other elections across Europe. This isn't wild speculation. It's been confirmed by the 5 eyes intelligence services.

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