![]() UK Ambassador to Mexico | |
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Incumbent Post vacant since May 2024 | |
Style | His/Her Excellency |
Status | Vacant |
Reports to | Foreign Secretary |
Residence | Mexico City |
Appointer | Monarch |
Term length | No term fixed |
Inaugural holder | Richard Pakenham Minister Plenipotentiary |
Formation | 1835 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary |
Final holder | Jon Benjamin |
Website | UK and Mexico |
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Mexico is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the United Mexican States, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Mexico.
The post was last held by Jon Benjamin until May 2024, when he was removed as the ambassador after a video emerged showing Benjamin aiming an assault rifle at a local embassy employee. [1] The post remains vacant.
Besides the embassy in Mexico City, the UK also maintains a consulate general in Cancun. [2]
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