Image copyright Reuters Image caption President Bashar al-Assad"s forces have regained control of Aleppo Britain"s policy on Syria has been “wrong every step of the way”, according to a former UK ambassador to the country.
Peter Ford said the UK had made matters worse by not putting troops on the ground and instead encouraging rebel groups to mount a doomed campaign.
The situation had led to hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties, which could have been foreseen, he added.
The Foreign Office said it believed in a Syrian-led political settlement.
Mr Ford, who was the ambassador in Damascus from 2003 to 2006, said the UK should have put forces on to the battlefield or refrained from encouraging the launch of the opposition campaign.
Speaking on the Today programme: “We have made the situation worse.
“It was eminently foreseeable to anyone who was not intoxicated with wishful thinking. The British Foreign Office, to which I used to belong, I"m sorry to say has got S..
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