The BBC News website reports that the junior Foreign Office official who thought it a good idea to insult the Pope in the most crassly offensive terms has been “put on other duties”.
Personally, for his or her own good, as well as that of the Foreign Office, I should have thought it sensible to suggest to the official in question, as kindly as possible, that a career in diplomacy no longer beckons.
As if the Conservatives, of all parties, would sack a civil servant.