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muriel_volestrangler

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4. She's done well; I'll admit to being sceptical about her appointment in the EU

Reply to dipsydoodle (Reply #2)

Sun Nov 24, 2013, 09:23 AM

Nov 2013

She seemed to have been a civil service administrator who rose without trace, and got the foreign policy post because no-one wanted any well-known politician to do it. But she's done well at negotiations - Serbia and Kosovo as well as this:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/24/iran-nuclear-talks-lady-ashton-geneva-triumph

This is a good result, for an ex-treasurer of CND - which was why UKIP and some Tories said she should have never got the EU job.

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