Matthew Rycroft

Matthew Rycroft    (civil servant, diplomat, spook?)
Born	Matthew John Rycroft 16 June 1968 Southampton, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Merton College (Oxford)
Member of	Blavatnik School of Government/Staff and Advisory Council
Permanent Secretary of the Home Office In office 23 March 2020 - Present  Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development In office 22 January 2018 - 20 March 2020  British Ambassador to the United Nations In office 25 April 2015 - 19 January 2018  British Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina In office 2005 - 2008

Matthew Rycroft is now the most senior civil servant at the Home Office.

He wrote the infamous Document:Downing Street Memo

 

Documents by Matthew Rycroft

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Downing Street Memo	memo	July 2002	Iraq War 2003	The now infamous memo about the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
Document:Downing Street Minutes 23 July 2002	memo	23 July 2002	Downing Street memo	The text of a memo written by Matthew Rycroft, a Downing Street foreign policy aide in July 2002 and addressed to David Manning, then foreign policy advisor to Tony Blair who appointed him Ambassador to the US in 2003. Published on 1 May 2005

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