{"id":203240,"date":"2025-10-16T02:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/203240\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T02:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:45:07","slug":"why-migration-is-taking-over-the-uk-foreign-office-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/203240\/","title":{"rendered":"Why migration is taking over the UK Foreign Office \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Explaining his doctrine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidlammy.co.uk\/the-case-for-progressive-realism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lammy said<\/a> a progressive realist foreign policy would aim for \u201cjust goals \u2014 for example climate change, defending democracy, and advancing the world\u2019s economic development\u201d rather than just accumulation of power.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper, at least so far, seems determined to keep her focus more narrow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2239500085-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7336860\"  \/>Since taking on the job of foreign secretary in last month\u2019s reshuffle, Yvette Cooper has moved quickly to put her own stamp on one of the most rarefied parts of Whitehall. | Charles McQuillan\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>In advance of last week\u2019s summit, the FCDO announced it would increase the number of staff working on the issue of migration, including drawing up sanctions on people smugglers and pursuing migrant returns agreements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two officials, granted anonymity to speak candidly, said she also wants to break down silos in Britain\u2019s embassies, where at present, FCDO staff are often stationed alongside Home Office staff, but don\u2019t speak to one another.<\/p>\n<p>She believes she has expertise to share with her counterparts as a veteran of the home affairs brief for the last nine years, first as select committee chair and then as shadow home secretary in opposition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther countries asking for her input as a former interior minister \u2013 they recognize it\u2019s not just a U.K. but a global issue,\u201d said one of the two officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Explaining his doctrine, Lammy said a progressive realist foreign policy would aim for \u201cjust goals \u2014 for example&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[627,2992,59,57,58,2795,420,821,50,633,1351,56,54,55,20765],"class_list":{"0":"post-203240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-david-lammy","9":"tag-foreign-policy","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-greatbritain","13":"tag-immigration","14":"tag-keir-starmer","15":"tag-migration","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nigel-farage","18":"tag-security","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-unitedkingdom","22":"tag-yvette-cooper"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}