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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to appoint Martin Reynolds, a rule-breaking official implicated in the infamous ‘Partygate’ scandal, as the next UK ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Reynolds, an Oxbridge graduate and UK Foreign Office veteran, resigned as Johnson’s Principal Private Secretary earlier this year amid outrage over successive partying by 10 Downing Street during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. The former ambassador to Libya was mentioned 24 times in Sue Gray’s report, with the most scandalous offence involving a “bring your own booze” party in Johnson’s back garden…