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Foreign Office 'gobsmacked'

Boris Johnson has been appointed as the new foreign secretary.

Sue Cameron, a journalist who regularly writes about Whitehall, was inside the Foreign Office when news of his appointment hit the phones of mandarins, as she told presenter Edward Stourton.

(Photo: Boris Johnson. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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