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Tom Fletcher

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Tom Fletcher

@TFletcher

Personal a/c of @UNReliefChief. Ex Head Hertford College; UK Ambo; No 10. ✍️ Naked Diplomat, 10 Survival Skills For World In Flux, The Ambassador, The Assassin.

Via Nbi, Paris, Beirut, Oxford

tomfletcher.global

Born March 27

Joined August 2011

Tom Fletcher
@TFletcher
Aug 30, 2022
Over several years in @10DowningStreet I collected advice for my son, Charlie: tomfletcher.global/blogs/details/… I asked world leaders what they would say to themselves at 14 years old. Mikhail Gorbachev was quite emotional as he wrote his. His translator helped too. Here it is. RIP
Tom Fletcher
@TFletcher
Jun 4, 2016
Don't judge those running for office by the eloquence of their tributes to Ali, but how they would treat a 20 year old version of him now.
Tom Fletcher
@TFletcher
Jan 6, 2021
I couldn’t find UK statement, @10DowningStreet, so here’s a quick draft: “We condemn this attempt to subvert the democratic will of the American people, and those in the outgoing administration that has incited it. We call for calm, restraint and a peaceful transition of power.”
Tom Fletcher
@TFletcher
Jun 27, 2016
England squad costs 175m. If we exit, let's spend it on the NHS.
Tom Fletcher
@TFletcher
Nov 26, 2021
The issue here is not that No 10 sent France a demanding letter and then shared it with the media. That is normal cut and thrust. It is that No 10 wrote a letter for the Daily Mail and shared it with France.
BBC Breaking News
@BBCBreaking
Nov 26, 2021
France cancels high-level migrant talks in protest at letter published by UK PM Boris Johnson bbc.in/3lak3vU
Tom Fletcher
@TFletcher
Jan 31, 2022
I shudder at the thought of the reports that embassies in London are sending their capitals tonight.
Tom Fletcher
@TFletcher
Feb 17, 2024
Good to see UK Ambassador in Moscow making a point of doing this. 👇
Nigel Casey
@NigelCaseyHMA
Feb 17, 2024
In memory of Alexei Navalny @FCDOGovUK
Tom Fletcher
@TFletcher
Oct 10, 2023
In touch with so many friends in Lebanon, Israel, Palestine. A grim and terrifying moment for so many civilians, who did not choose this horror. Somehow, amid the anger and fear, they are telling me there has to be space to recognise the humans on the other side of the fence. 1/7
Tom Fletcher
@TFletcher
Oct 4, 2022
As dreams go, this is not up there with Martin Luther King.
Phantom Power
@PhantomPower14
Oct 4, 2022
‘I would love to be having a front page of The Telegraph with a plane taking off to Rwanda. That’s my dream. That’s my obsession’ Home Secretary Suella Braverman
00:00
Tom Fletcher
@TFletcher
Jul 4, 2024
A🧵 on first PM calls. I was doing foreign policy in @10DowningStreet last change of government - 2010. Day before he resigned, Gordon Brown leant over to ask me what I was working on. It was brief for David Cameron’s first call with Obama. I stuttered reply. Gordon chuckled.
Tom Fletcher
@TFletcher
Jul 5, 2022
Not for the first time in recent years, I shudder to imagine the reports that ambassadors in UK are sending their capitals tonight.
Tom Fletcher
@TFletcher
Mar 17, 2020
A graph.
Tom Fletcher
@TFletcher
Aug 26, 2022
“All my life I’ve been grateful for contribution France has made … for sense of personal liberty and rights of man which has radiated from soul of France … Show me moment when I swerved from this conception, and you will show me moment when I have been wrong” #TheJuryIsNotOut
Tom Fletcher
@TFletcher
Sep 27, 2021
I’ve spent most of my adult life outside 🇬🇧, mainly Asia, Africa, Europe. We benefited from decades when - justified or not - there was genuine international perception of 🇬🇧 competence. That treble A rating for competence is hard won, lost fast, and will be hard to get back.