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But we would be breaking international conventions if we revoked the diplomatic status, and that would be unprecedented.
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No we would not. It's an established law and we'll be doing it via the courts. It's ultimately our decision who has an embassy in our country. It's not unprecedented to revoke such status either, it's just this use of the law has only been used once. What international convention would we be breaking?
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What's more, while rape clearly is a serious crime, we need to weigh up the seriousness of that offence against the unprecedented move of revoking diplomatic status.
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Why do you keep saying unprecedented? There are several times embassies have been kicked out of a country.
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it's going to look very odd to other nations if the UK is suddenly saying that they will revoke diplomatic status pretty much at will.
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Not at will. They are harbouring someone we need to arrest. We will have to go though months or years of process to get them to hand me over or risk being kicked out.
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And still no one has told me the logic of America routing this via Sweden rather than applying directly to us.