UK Ambassador to USA: Leaked Emails

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement ab...

Thankfully we will hear more from the hon. Gentleman erelong—hopefully very fully.

Her Majesty’s Government utterly deplore the serious breach of classified information; it is tota...

I apologise for the slightly false start. I am extremely concerned, as I know many others in the ...

I thank my hon. Friend for his comments and supportive statements over the weekend. I share his d...

Thank you very much, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question. I also thank the Chair of the...

First, may I thank the right hon. Lady for her very measured response to this? I am very grateful...

Will my right hon. Friend confirm that all our ambassadors are expected to report frankly and pri...

I think that the ambassador will be very heartened by the message that my right hon. Friend is as...

I thank the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee for raising this issue and for the action that...

This is not about Brexit. This is about an utterly disgraceful leak, and whoever is responsible n...

Splendid.

Although Mr Farage has ruled himself out, the question still arises of what the effect would be i...

I have no wish whatsoever to comment on the process by which any future ambassador to Washington ...

It is clear that whoever was responsible for this was not thinking of the national interest. The ...

My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary was making a distinction between what is analytical re...

These toxic and unjustified attacks on the President of the United States and his Administration ...

Order.

They are regarded by many people as completely unjustified. As Chairman of the European Scrutiny ...

I regret to have to say that I consider my hon. Friend’s intervention deeply unworthy. Sir Kim Da...

May I commend the Minister and indeed the Secretary of State for International Trade for defendin...

Rather, I would say that everything we are witnessing is a sign of a very deep and serious relati...

Inevitably, however, there will be aspects of the ambassador’s role that will now be much more di...

But as with so many diplomats, Sir Kim Darroch has the style and confidence that will make sure t...

Marvellous!

It is inconceivable that a leak intended to damage our serving ambassador in Washington came from...

I have to say to the right hon. Gentleman that I have been rather puzzled over the weekend about ...

Does my right hon. Friend share my confidence that this episode is most unlikely to have any last...

I certainly condemn the leaker, and I certainly back our ambassador and his entire team in what i...

The Foreign Office simply cannot function or do its job properly on behalf of all of us unless a ...

I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who, of course, has experience as a Foreign Minister, s...

When the Minister for the Americas first saw these leaked diptels, was there anything in them tha...

No, because obviously I had seen them before. I have had the benefit over two and a half years of...

As the Minister has said, Sir Kim Darroch was doing his job, and the kinds of things that have be...

The new regime, as the right hon. Gentleman calls it, will have to speak for itself when it has t...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his reply to the extraordinary question from my hon. Friend the ...

My right hon. Friend serves on the Intelligence and Security Committee, and so is familiar with t...

Sir Kim Darroch has always given honest and frank reports, no matter which party he has represent...

I would rather like to echo everything the hon. Lady has said. I also heard him on the radio, and...

Does the Minister agree that if the person leaking has signed a declaration on the Official Secre...

The inquiry will be thorough, and whatever the law says, it will be followed appropriately.

I thank the Minister for his responses to these questions. He is always very balanced. Does he no...

We have the Official Secrets Act so that people can answer in law. Ministers are bound by the min...

Does my right hon. Friend see any link at all between the timing of this appalling leak, and the ...

Forgive me, but I find these conspiracy theories rather tiresome. They are a diversion from the f...

The Minister and I share something in common: we both throw things at the radio when Nigel Farage...

I have to give the same answer I gave some moments ago, which is that that smacks a bit of a cons...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right to stress the enduring links between the United States A...

Any decision to prosecute, as my hon. Friend appreciates, is a matter for those authorities who a...

We need to call this out for what it is: the individual or individuals responsible for this leak ...

On the preamble to the hon. Gentleman’s question, I say: well said, in every conceivable respect....

This is an extremely serious leak of not just one highly sensitive diplomatic cable, but a number...

The Cabinet Office inquiry will be cross-Whitehall, and will report in the normal way up the line...

There has been some speculation about how long Kim Darroch will remain in his post. Given his exc...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his extremely unhelpful ingenuity. Any decision about when Sir Kim...

Whoever leaked these signals will have signed the Official Secrets Act, which means that they sho...

Yes; our Government, diplomacy, ministerial activity and the actions of civil servants all need t...

The Minister’s tone today is spot-on, and right and proper. Given that the leaks took place over ...

We of course appoint ambassadors as we see fit, in the interests of the country and the bilateral...

Typically, how many named individuals would be on the circulation list for a diplomatic telegram ...

Once the telegram has done all the rounds to all posts and various layers, I would guess the numb...

As my right hon. Friend the Member for Exeter (Mr Bradshaw) pointed out, the journalist behind th...

We do not at this stage see any evidence of third-party intervention of that sort. The first prem...

This leak is both reprehensible and deeply unpatriotic. Once the investigation is concluded, will...

I imagine that the results, whatever the outcomes, would definitely be made public—in what form, ...

Cui bono? Given the untrustworthiness of the American Administration, and their filleting of thei...

Appointments in any subsequent Administration will be a matter for that Administration. We will o...

In common with other right hon. and hon. Members, I have had meetings with Sir Kim Darroch in the...

I agree with the hon. Gentleman. Standards of decency are slipping, and they need to be restored....

This is an unprecedented leak, but is the Minister at least relieved that the incompetency and fa...

The hon. Gentleman is, of course, permitted to make whatever judgments he wishes to make.

I...

I am very grateful to the Minister of State for the way in which he has handled this important se...