The '''Foreign Secretary''' - in full, '''Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs''' - is the foreign minister of the Government of the [[United Kingdom]]. The post is considered - alongside that of [[Home Secretary]] and [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] to be one of the three main offices of state below [[Prime Minister]]. Only one person - [[James Callaghan]] - held all three posts and went on to be PM.
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The '''Foreign Secretary''' - in full, '''Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs''' - is the foreign minister of the Government of the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/foreign-secretary Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs</ref> The post is considered - alongside that of [[Home Secretary]] and [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] to be one of the three main offices of state below [[Prime Minister]]. Only one person - [[James Callaghan]] - held all three posts and went on to be PM.
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The current Foreign Secretary is [[William Hague]].
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The office is also responsible for overseeing the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, MI6.
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The current Foreign Secretary is [[Philip Hammond]], MP.