The Labour leader has dismissed the merger of the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development as 'pure distraction' after Boris Johnson announced he would create a 'new Whitehall super department' overseen by the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab. The new Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is expected to be formed in the autumn, well before the government has completed its integrated foreign and defence security review
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