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Meet the Foreign Secretary

The Foreign Secretary has selected five of his twitter followers to meet him for a discussion about foreign policy at the Foreign Office.

From:
Foreign & Commonwealth Office and The Rt Hon William Hague
Published
21 September 2012
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To mark his 100,000th follower on twitter, the Foreign Secretary invited his followers to send a tweet including the hashtag #meetFS, and say:

  • what idea, innovation or trend you think will have the greatest impact on our world over the next 20 years or:
  • what you believe the Foreign Office’s priorities should be over the next year.

You can find more details on the Foreign Secretary’s twitter account @williamjhague

Here were some of the responses:

[View the story “#meetFS “ on Storify]

The competition has now closed.

The event will take place on 2 October at 1600 BST, and includes a tour of the historic Foreign Office building.

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Published 21 September 2012