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Why were Foreign Office staff ‘in tears’ over Brexit?

Simon McDonald, the former head of the Foreign Office (Credit: BBC)
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Jawad Iqbal

Jawad Iqbal is a broadcaster and ex-television news executive. Jawad is a former Visiting Senior Fellow in the Institute of Global Affairs at the LSE

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