THE Foreign Secretary has threatened to withdraw assistance from the Foreign Office when SNP ministers travel abroad.
It comes after a row erupted earlier this year when James Cleverly told senior officials across the globe to “confidently” represent “the strengths of the Union” amid fears the SNP were successfully using diplomacy with foreign governments “to promote Scottish separatism”., including telling them to ensure that a UK Government official sits in on any and all meetings between SNP ministers and foreign governments.
He added that if this continued, he would instruct his officials “to withdraw from facilitating meetings between Scottish government ministers and ministers of foreign governments”. Previously, Dr Kirsty Hughes, a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh who formerly worked at the European Commission, told The National that diplomats would most likely “ignore” Cleverly’s instructions.
The Constitution and External Affairs Secretary Angus Robertson also previously insisted that April’s guidance “seeks to address a problem that does not exist” and claimed its real intention was to “censor” SNP ministers.We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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