How UK's foreign policy efforts to dislodge Mugabe ended in failure

Series of misunderstandings and protection from other African leaders meant Britain could only wound the regime Britain's 40-year effort to find a way to either influence or dislodge Robert Mugabe is one of the country's great post-war foreign policy failures. It is a story spanning six UK prime ministers, nearly £1bn in aid and every conceivable strategy. Whether the cause of that failure lies at the door of a colonial mindset in the Foreign Office, a failed land transfer policy, the collectiv...