How to Use the Foreign Office in a Sentence

the Foreign Office

noun
  • Above him, Princess Kate watched in quiet composure from the Foreign Office balcony.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Downing Street has blamed the Foreign Office for the failure, and a top civil servant has reportedly been sacked.
    — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2026
  • As the Foreign Office guidance changed on the Gulf, customers who have already booked have the right to cancel a package holiday.
    — Marc Shoffman, TheWeek, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The person who died in the crash is believed to have been a 77-year-old British man, the outlet reported, citing the Foreign Office.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Downing Street moved swiftly late on Thursday to try to quash the scandal, sacking the Foreign Office’s top official, Olly Robbins.
    — Reuters, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The Russian ambassador has been summoned to the Foreign Office to respond to the report and to ongoing Russian hybrid operations.
    — Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Last week, Starmer fired Sir Olly Robbins, who was the Foreign Office's most senior civil servant at the time of Mandelson's appointment and vetting.
    — Frank Andrews, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Starmer claims he wasn’t told that Mandelson failed security vetting before being appointed; the Foreign Office overruled the decision without informing the prime minister.
    — Jill Lawless, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Starmer says he was not informed that the Foreign Office had overruled the recommendation of security officials in early 2025 not to give Peter Mandelson the job.
    — ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • To formally present his invention, Matip is invited to a meeting at Wyvern Abbey, the country estate of George Lomax (Alex Macqueen), Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office.
    — Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Advertisement It was revealed in April that Mandelson had failed the security vetting in January 2025, only for his appointment as ambassador to go ahead the following month anyway on account of the Foreign Office overruling the decision.
    — Callum Sutherland, Time, 19 May 2026
  • Palmerston was rescued from the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home and joined the Foreign Office in 2016 during a turbulent time in British politics, just months before the UK voted to withdraw from the European Union.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026

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