"“I think the Foreign Office have slightly overreached themselves here,” Britain's former ambassador to Moscow, Tony Brenton, told the BBC.
"“If we live in a world where governments can arbitrarily revoke immunity and go into embassies then the life of our diplomats and their ability to conduct normal business in places like Moscow where I was and North Korea becomes close to impossible.”"
Full article: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange granted asylum by Ecuador.
"Slightly"! Typical British understatement! The threat from Britain was a very dangerous piece of overreaction - to keep the Yanks happy...?
