'Gardening' Diplomats Cost Taxpayer Pounds 500,000 a Month

Mail on Sunday (April 17, 2005)

Author: Glen Owen

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MORE than 150 diplomats have been placed on gardening leave at a cost of over Pounds 500,000 a month as a result of savage job cuts in Britain's embassies.

The move comes amid reports of rock-bottom morale in the Foreign Office and a stampede for the exit door by disenchanted embassy staff.

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'Gardening' Diplomats Cost Taxpayer Pounds 500,000 a Month

Diplomats are automatically sent home on full pay if they are turned down for more than t...

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