'I worry people are giving up on diplomacy'
Britain's youngest ambassador for more than 200 years has put the case for a digital revolution to transform the diplomatic service.
Tom Fletcher - the UK's former man in Beirut - claimed "diplomacy is now much too important to be left to diplomats."
The self-styled 'recovering ambassador' talked Trump, Brexit and the rise of extremism in a personal film for the Daily Politics soapbox series.
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Soapbox films—Daily Politics
Authored films from politicians and commentators on a subject that gets them fired up.
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