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What happened The Darroch affair A second tranche of diplomatic cables sent by Sir Kim Darroch, Britain’s ambassador to the US, was published by The Mail on Sunday this week. In these extracts, dating from May 2018, Darroch accused Donald Trump of abandoning the Iran nuclear deal to spite his predecessor Barack Obama, in what amounted to an act of “diplomatic vandalism”. Two days earlier, while announcing the launch of a police investigation into the leak, Met assistant commissioner Neil Basu had warned that any media organisation that published further secrets could be prosecuted. But Scotland Yard rowed back on that threat after MPs said it risked turning Britain into a “police state”. Darroch resigned last week over the original memo leak, in which he described the Trump administration as “clumsy and inept”.…

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