Ambassador Di-Aping Lumumba of Sudan, chair of the group, is clearly amused by Ed's statement in the Guardian earlier this week that the talks are "too important to be left to the formal negotiators". Lumumba said: "Britain are not the bad guys here. I would say the current British government just lacks the resolve. The challenge now starts with Ed Miliband. Either you are the one to direct here, or you are a general whose troops do not address your will." Quite a few people in the Foreign Office and even the cabinet probably know Lumumba, because he used to work for McKinsey and has an Oxford doctorate. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited