26/06/2014

Head Of MI6 To Step Down

The head of the MI6 is to step down from his post in November.

Sir John Sawers, known as C, is to leave after five years in the post, the Foreign Office has confirmed.

Before his appointment in 2009 he was Britain's ambassador to the United Nations.

He also spent three years as foreign policy advisor to the former Prime Miister Tony Blair.

(CVS/CD)

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