The eventful landing of Liz Truss, the new head of British diplomacy

Posted On: September 26, 2021

That means in English fall to the ground in other words, start on the hats of the wheels. Hours after her appointment as Secretary of State in Boris Johnson’s new administration, Liz Truss, 46, was packing her suitcase for the United Nations General Assembly in New York with one hand to get something to eat; with another he was on the phone to his Australian and American counterparts, Marise Payne and Antony Blinken to face the immediate aftermath of the brand new Aukus strategic alliance signed between the United States, Australia and the UK. Everything between a meeting with the President of the Kurdish region of Iraq, Netchirvan Barzani, and another with Mohammed ben Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. Britain’s most popular Conservative Party minister even found the time to write a column in the Tories’ favorite daily, the Daily telegraph, Entitled: “Global Great Britain Plants Its Flag On The World Stage”.

Because if it is estimated in Paris that Boris Johnson joined the tripartite pact out of “pure opportunism”, as European Foreign Minister Clément Beaune said, the government in London, on the other hand, is careful to portray the alliance as one of the concrete victories of Brexit and its famous ones let’s take control back (“Let’s take back control”). Or, in the words of Liz Truss im Daily telegraph : “Our freedoms must be defended. To this end, we are building defense alliances around the world […]. With Aukus we will use the most modern technologies, from nuclear submarines to artificial intelligence and quantum computing. ” Global UK in action! […] The best is yet to come. ”She doesn’t mention France or China. And Liz Truss, who crashes on the Royal Air Force plane to New York.

Cantor of “Global Britain”

Seven hours later, Truss posted a photo of herself walking resolutely on the airport tarmac in the early morning rays, wearing a ponytail shirt and a red jacket with gold buttons. Behind her, an American soldier gives the military salute. Just enough time to change and this is where she has breakfast with … Henry Kissinger. Before continuing the bilateral meetings in the offices of the British Mission to the United Nations with their Indonesian, Jordanian, American, Turkish, Egyptian, Indian, Australian and Canadian counterparts. To finally accompany Boris Johnson with Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.

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It must be said that Liz Truss, alongside Dominic Raab, his predecessor, who demanded under no circumstances be disturbed, whether on vacation, with the family or in the gym, even during the fall of Kabul, neither his pain nor his energy. The one who campaigned to remain in the EU before campaigning for Brexit in the Economics Ministry under Theresa May, then in foreign trade in the first Johnson government, offers the voluntary face of this “global Great Britain”, the “Bojo” is dear. Failure to have a more consistent strategy.