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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week: A resignation in Washington, Labour departures and a plague of toxic caterpillars

13 July 2019

9:00 AM

13 July 2019

9:00 AM

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Sir Kim Darroch resigned as British ambassador to Washington after the Mail on Sunday published disobliging emails he had sent between 2017 and now, which said things like: ‘We don’t really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.’

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