{"id":365493,"date":"2017-10-26T16:33:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=365493"},"modified":"2017-10-26T16:33:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:33:43","slug":"emails-reveal-foreign-office-alarm-at-trump-travel-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/emails-reveal-foreign-office-alarm-at-trump-travel-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Emails reveal Foreign Office alarm at Trump travel ban"},"content":{"rendered":"
The UK government wanted to set up an internal warning system to monitor and react to decisions made by President Donald Trump, emails show.<\/p>\n
The emails reveal concerns\u00a0about the impact of Mr Trump’s travel ban on UK citizens and national security.<\/p>\n
Officials did not want to be caught out by similar orders issued by the US president “just as London is going to sleep”, one official said.<\/p>\n
The emails were released to the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act.<\/p>\n
The BBC’s Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale said: “These emails show just how concerned the Foreign Office was about the flow of unexpected announcements emerging from the Trump White House and the potential impact on the UK.”<\/p>\n
“But we have to remember that this concern was also shared by other parts of the US administration that were at times equally blindsided by the president’s early morning tweets,” added our correspondent.<\/p>\n
“So the emails do not reflect any particular deterioration in UK-US relations. They illustrate the kind of steps foreign governments have had to consider to cope with Mr Trump’s unpredictable style of government.”<\/p>\n