Peter Ford

Following several interventions in the mainstream media in which he has warned that Syrian Christians’ blood will be on the British Prime Minister’s hands and has called the British government’s Syria policy “incoherent and grotesque” and “like a dog returning to its own vomit”, Peter Ford (HM Ambassador Damascus 2003-2006) speaks to UK Column at length about the decline of expertise and empathy in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the “off-the-graph diplomatic autism” of London and Washington, and predicts that by calling a snap general election, Theresa May has given fillip to Daesh and may end up a hostage to fortune.