In a letter Clooney penned to UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, the former explained that it has become “untenable” of her to “urge other states to respect and enforce international obligations while the UK declares that it does not intend to do so itself”. Amal Clooney, prominent human rights lawyer and wife of famous American actor George Clooney, has ended up resigning from her position as UK envoy on media freedom, after the House of Commons passed the Internal Market Bill earlier this week. The new legislation, seeks to scale back some of Britain’s obligations under the Withdrawal Agreement, related to […]
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In July 2019, the UK Metropolitan Police opened a probe into the leak of excerpts from confidential cables by Kim Darroch in which the then-British ambassador to the US described the White House as “uniquely dysfunctional”, warning that President Trump could end up in “disgrace”. Former US National Security Adviser John Bolton has told The Telegraph that in 2019, President Donald Trump ordered the removal of UK Ambassador to the US Kim Darroch following a leak of the envoy’s memos, which showed him making derogatory comments about POTUS. Dwelling on his job at the White House, Bolton said that “the hardest […]