Former Nepal ambassador worked 15-hour shifts for Foreign Office’s Covid taskforce with little time off
A distinguished British diplomat took his own life after suffering “extreme stress” while he worked long hours with little time off on the Covid crisis, a coroner has concluded.
Richard Morris, the former ambassador to Nepal, feared that he would lose his upcoming post as high commissioner of Fiji if he could not prove his “resilience”, senior coroner Chris Wilkinson said.
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