Perhaps you would care to shake some political runes....Whilst you are correct to a degree ..who at the present time is in charge @ the FO ?...We have witnessed the public fall out with the RYR affair & things have a nasty habit of "blowing up" in political faces which I state again is not what any of them require in the febrile atmosphere within HM Government & especially when all will be on show at Conference.Government & ministers will require to be seen as having been & being "hands on" & not surprised innocent bystanders I would argue..Tens of thousands is quite a big deal mate...