Britain’s Ambassador to the Holy See tells Hannah Roberts that improving religious literacy is vital to the relationship between the Foreign Office and the Vatican Nigel Baker speaks with refreshing candour for a career diplomat. “It’s still very difficult for the British Government to address issues of faith and religion,” he says. “They always tie themselves up in knots … We do do God or we don’t do God.” Sitting in the embassy by Rome’s Porta Pia, the theatrical arched gate designed by Michelangelo for Pope Pius IV, the ambassador acknowledges that the Foreign Office has only recently woken up to the importance of religion in foreign policy.Four months ago, the Minister for Faith, Baroness (Sayeeda) Warsi, resigned over the Gaza c