Also, it's been suggested that most members will have voted now anyway.I'm interested in who could have done the leaking. Someone (I think on the Telegraph website) suggested it was a Remainer (their words) who had done it, but that seems totally silly: if so, it would have been a shot in the foot for the remain cause.Much more likely - and it's relevant here to ask (I think Michael did already) - cui bono? On that basis, it's much more likely to have been an extreme Brexiteer, hoping to get rid of someone who they perceived to have been insufficiently gung ho about Brexit. Which was either stupid (not having understood that the diplomatic service is there to report back truthfully, not act as a mouthpiece for the regime being reported on) or malignant (trying to politicise the civil service). Either way, it was a foolish and damaging action, and I hope they're discovered and get the book thrown at them.Incidentally, the Trump groupies here seem to have gone very quiet about this whole shoddy business, I wonder why?
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