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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/450-uk-embassy-workers-to-be-axed.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The Foreign Office plans to axe around 450 jobs from embassies and consulates around the world, say union leaders" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-450-uk-embassy-workers-to-be-axed.jpg" alt="The Foreign Office plans to axe around 450 jobs from embassies and consulates around the world, say union leaders"/></a></p>
<p>The Foreign Office is planning to axe around 450 jobs from embassies and consulates around the world, including posts helping UK citizens and supporting diplomats, union leaders have said.</p>
<p>Internal briefings to staff said the cuts were part of measures to save up to £30 million a year because of reductions in Government spending, said the Public and Commercial Services union.</p>
<p>Officials said the move was &#8220;short sighted&#8221; particularly at a time when staff have played a key role in providing assistance to UK citizens in countries such as Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.</p>
<p>The union urged the Foreign Office to rethink its plans, saying that diplomatic staff should be allowed to &#8220;do what they were employed to do&#8221; &#8211; work overseas on behalf of the UK.</p>
<p>General secretary Mark Serwotka said: &#8220;The Government talks about increasing the UK&#8217;s influence abroad, but these cuts will have the opposite effect.</p>
<p>&#8220;The events of the last few weeks have shown the value of the work carried out by our members helping UK citizens abroad. Cuts on this scale would mean that support will not be there in the future.&#8221;</p>
<p>The union said that under the plans, many diplomatic staff would now never work abroad, spending their careers in offices in London instead.</p>
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