{"id":973058,"date":"2026-05-20T10:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/973058\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:20:20","slug":"uk-deputy-ambassador-leaves-washington-amid-security-leak-probe-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/973058\/","title":{"rendered":"UK deputy ambassador leaves Washington amid security leak probe \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesperson confirmed that Roscoe has left his post but did not immediately respond to further questions.<\/p>\n<p>Two people briefed on the matter told POLITICO that Roscoe had faced questions as part of an inquiry into leaked details from an NSC meeting about the war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>A third person, a U.K. official, described the matter as \u201cextremely serious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His involvement in the inquiry was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/politics\/article\/james-roscoe-diplomat-washington-fired-s303v96j9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first reported by The Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Spectator reported in March on splits in Keir Starmer\u2019s Cabinet at the top secret meeting over allowing the U.S. to use British bases for the strikes against Iran \u2014 a confidence breach described by Deputy PM David Lammy as an \u201cabsolute travesty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roscoe\u2019s departure comes shortly before another potentially embarrassing release of files relating to Mandelson\u2019s time as top envoy to the U.S., and deals yet another blow to Britain\u2019s damaged diplomatic service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesperson confirmed that Roscoe has left his post but did not immediately&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":973059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,1193,6217,393,4884,774,807,1144,28300,712,1199,16,15,49,1764,771,231032],"class_list":["post-973058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-britain","tag-british-politics","tag-david-lammy","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-iran","tag-keir-starmer","tag-northern-ireland","tag-peter-mandelson","tag-scotland","tag-services","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-wales","tag-war","tag-war-in-iran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116606404289343842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973058","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=973058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}