Britain is soon likely to abuse human rights even more (thank you the business lobby)

Save us. The ever-increasing closeness between business and government is almost guaranteed to ignore human rights. In other words, another day at the Foreign Office:

Businessmen could be recruited as British abroad under a shake-up of the Foreign Office to put diplomats in the front line of winning orders for UK firms and inward investment in this country.

David Cameron has ordered a revamp of the Foreign Office as Labour’s much-mocked “ethical” foreign policy gives way to a commercial approach.

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