Top UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall quits over Brexit, saying she will not ‘peddle half-truths’
- Brexit Counsellor at British embassy in Washington slams government she ‘does not trust’ in resignation letter, saying her position had become ‘unbearable’
- Diplomat felt she had to deliver messages that were ‘neither fully honest nor politically impartial’ when explaining UK’s approach to Brexit to US politicians
A senior British diplomat in Washington has resigned, saying she did not want to “peddle half-truths” over Brexit for a government she did not trust, CNN reported on Friday.
Britons head to the polls on December 12 for an election that will decide the fate of Britain’s exit from the European Union.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives have said they will deliver Brexit by the end of January, while the opposition Labour Party, who are trailing in the polls, plans to renegotiate the exit deal and put it to another referendum.
Citing a copy of her resignation letter dated December 3, CNN reported that Alexandra Hall Hall, who had been Brexit Counsellor in the British embassy in Washington since 2018, said her position had become “unbearable personally, and untenable professionally”.
“I have been increasingly dismayed by the way in which our political leaders have tried to deliver Brexit, with reluctance to address honestly, even with our own citizens, the challenges and trade-offs which Brexit involves,” she wrote.