This was reported on LBC during Nick Ferrari's early am show and it wasn't a surprise. Darroch never liked Trump and Trump's administration didn't gel with Darroch, so it has been an uneasy alliance all along. Darroch was due to retire at the end of this year anyway so he can enjoy his gold plated pension a bit sooner than expected. Then no doubt he will elevated to the House of Lords to enjoy the further privilege of trousering £300 per day. Tracing the leak will be difficult. When this story first broke LBC interviewed a former British diplomat in Washington and he explained the various ways these missives are sent, and about their levels of security. Highly sensitive messages are sent directly to the PM and Foreign Secretary and perhaps a handful of very senior civil servants in the FO. More mundane emails are more widely distributed and can be seen by dozens, if not 100s of more minor civil servants. It would be incomprehensible that Darroch would send his highly contentious opinions by an unsecured method, but if he did he is wholly to blame and deserved to go. From LBC:"Tom Swarbrick is a former advisor to Theresa May and he told of just how valuable the messages from ambassadors around the world are to the government.Speaking on his LBC show, he said: "I was in the very privileged position of being able to read the diplomatic telegrams that came through when I was in Number 10. I was on the circulation list, which is pretty wide, there are hundreds of people who are able to read these things."The insight gained into what's going on around the planet which isn't really available via the media or to most people was absolutely astonishing."It is one of the parts of the job I miss the most, not being able to read these things. They were incredible, the insight gleaned from them."
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