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It was in this capacity that Rycroft issued the "Downing Street memo". During his time in Downing Street, in 2003, he was made a CBE. [4] From March 2005 to July 2008, Rycroft served as Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina. In July 2008, he was appointed EU Director in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and then, in 2011, he became Chief ...
The Downing Street memo (or the Downing Street Minutes), sometimes described by critics of the Iraq War as the smoking gun memo, is the note of a 23 July 2002 secret meeting [1] [2] of senior British government, defence and intelligence figures discussing the build-up to the war, which included direct reference to classified United States policy of the time.
On June 16, 2005, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) assembled an unofficial meeting to discuss the Downing Street memo and to consider grounds for impeachment. Conyers filed a resolution on December 18, 2005, to create an investigative committee to consider impeachment.
Watch a live view outside Downing Street after Suella Braverman was sacked as home secretary on Monday, 13 November. Rishi Sunak is expected to conduct a cabinet reshuffle of his top team after ...
Watch live as Rishi Sunak welcomes Joe Biden to 10 Downing Street. The prime minister and US president will meet for discussions that could touch on cluster munitions and Ukraine’s bid to join ...
Until 2010, prime ministers used generic lecterns, or simply used a microphone stand to deliver speeches outside number 10. [7] Conservative prime minister David Cameron was the first to have a custom-built and bespoke lectern, designed by his head of operations Liz Sugg to appear "statesmanlike," with a curved, flared column, lighter wood and glossy finish.
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David Keogh, a civil servant at the Cabinet Office, and Leo O'Connor, a research assistant to former Labour MP Tony Clarke, were charged respectively under Section 3 and 5 of the Official Secrets Act 1989 [9] for the unauthorised disclosure of the memo. When O'Connor gave the memo to Clarke, Clarke returned it to Downing Street.