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Where would staff really move?

The Foreign Office is a government department, not just a building, and it occupies a large complex of buildings in Whitehall. Moving staff into an open-plan space there would mean sharing facilities with Foreign Office civil servants, potentially creating logistical and security challenges for the Prime Minister's team.

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