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The office is also responsible for overseeing the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, MI6. | The office is also responsible for overseeing the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, MI6. | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 00:22, July 21, 2018
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.
The office is also responsible for overseeing the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, MI6.
The current Foreign Secretary is Jeremy Hunt.[1]