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The British Foreign Office's decision under New Labour to break the link between language training and ambassadorial roles was a negative development.
“this was partly under new labor actually that you broke the link between um the language training the area expertise and the ambassadorial jobs so by 2010 12 out of the 15 ambassadors in the Middle East couldn't speak Arabic”
The Rest Is Politics · Nov 2023 · 1 episode · 77K views on this topic
The disconnection between language expertise and ambassadorships in the Foreign Office weakened British diplomatic capability in the Middle East.
“so by 2010 12 out of the 15 ambassadors in the Middle East couldn't speak Arabic whereas a generation before they had all been through Arabic language training often in in a a language School in in Lebanon and the foreign office really prided itself on people who spoke really beautiful fousa”
The Rest Is Politics · Nov 2023 · 1 episode · 77K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
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