Unlike his predecessor, who was based solely in the Cabinet Office, Falconer\u2019s new job will be a joint role shared between that department and the FDCO. He will attend Cabinet meetings.<\/p>\n
One Whitehall official, granted anonymity to discuss the changes, suggested the appointment was a sign that the EU reset would be brought back within the grip of the FCDO and away from the Cabinet Office.<\/p>\n
Falconer has a long history in the U.K.\u2019s foreign affairs department, having worked as a diplomat before becoming an MP.<\/p>\n
The son of Labour grandee Charlie Falconer, he takes over at a crucial time for discussions between London and Brussels.<\/p>\n
Summit prep<\/p>\n
Before Starmer\u2019s resignation, a U.K.-EU summit had been scheduled for Wednesday July 22 to round off talks on issues like an agri-food agreement, youth mobility scheme, and emissions trading deal.<\/p>\n
Starmer had also planned to use the meeting as a launchpad for a closer relationship with the bloc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlike his predecessor, who was based solely in the Cabinet Office, Falconer\u2019s new job will be a joint…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1117450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5226],"tags":[11783,802,748,2438,5398,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,807,839,5733,809,810,16,15,1220,50],"class_list":["post-1117449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brexit","tag-antonio-costa","tag-brexit","tag-britain","tag-department","tag-emissions","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-great-britain","tag-keir-starmer","tag-middle-east","tag-mobility","tag-negotiations","tag-nick-thomas-symonds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-youth"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117001558701651377","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1117450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}