{"id":593778,"date":"2026-05-20T05:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T05:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593778\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T05:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T05:06:08","slug":"british-diplomat-james-roscoe-leaves-posting-at-washington-embassy-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593778\/","title":{"rendered":"British diplomat James Roscoe leaves posting at Washington embassy | Foreign policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A diplomat in Washington who stood in as interim ambassador after the sacking of Peter Mandelson has abruptly left his post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In a brief statement, a Foreign Office spokesman said: \u201cJames Roscoe has left his post.\u201d No further explanation was officially given on Tuesday night for the departure of Roscoe, who had served as deputy head of mission at the British embassy since 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Roscoe was among those tipped for the top job after the removal of Mandelson over Mandelson\u2019s links to the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. The posting ultimately went to Christian Turner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">As charge d\u2019affaires to the US, Roscoe played a key role in Donald Trump\u2019s state visit to the UK in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">More recently, as second in charge at the embassy, he was involved in the king\u2019s US state visit to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Before moving to Washington, he was the UK ambassador to the UN and previously served as communications chief to the late Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He had also been chief press officer in Downing Street for prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Roscoe\u2019s earlier diplomatic postings included the UN, Sierra Leone and Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A diplomat in Washington who stood in as interim ambassador after the sacking of Peter Mandelson has abruptly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-593778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593778","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=593778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}