article_snippet: The former Labour leader has been the envoy for the Middle East Quartet peace negotiators – the UN, the EU, Russia and the US – since The former Labour leader quit as Prime Minister in 2007.
article_snippet: The former Labour leader is apparently embarking on negotiations to ‘recast’
article_snippet: The former Labour leader role while remaining involved in the peace process.
article_snippet: It is understood that the former Prime Minister has met John Kerry, the US secretary of state, and Federica Mogherini, the EU’s foreign policy chief, to discuss a possible job change.
article_snippet: Last year, a group of former British ambassadors joined a campaign calling for the ex-Prime Minister to be removed from the ex-Prime Minister role as Middle East envoy, raising objections to the possible clash with the ex-Prime Minister business interests and a attempts to ‘absolve the ex-Prime Minister’ of responsibility for the Iraq crisis.
article_snippet: Their letter, written last July, said the former Prime Minister’s achievements as Middle East envoy have been negligible and the former Prime Minister’s achievements was guilty of seeking to please the Israelis.
article_snippet: the ex-Prime Minister was accused by a handful of British ambassadors of trying to please the Israelis.
article_snippet: the ex-Prime Minister is pictured above Israel's Shimon Peres .
highlights_snippet: The former Labour leader has been the envoy since quit as Prime Minister .
  