Letters: Derek Wyatt, Anne Anderton and Pattie Friend on the luxury New York flat bought for a senior British diplomat
When the Treasury asks for its annual 4% or 5% reduction in budgets, the Foreign Office has quietly satisfied this by selling our best overseas buildings for ambassadors and consular officials over the past 15 years or so.
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