The Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is now odds-on at 4/7 with the former Chancellor Rishi Sunak to be the final two Tory MPs left in the leadership contest. In the… The post Liz Truss odds-on with Rishi Sunak to be final two Tory MPs in the Conservative leadership contest appeared first on London Business News…
Tom Tugendhat has been eliminated from the race to be the next leader of the Conservative party. The Tonbridge and Malling MP polled 31 votes, while former chancellor Rishi Sunak continued to top the poll with 115 votes. Penny Mordaunt remains in second place, but with one fewer vote (82) than in the second ballot.…
During foreign questions, secretary of state Liz Truss rejected shadow secretary David Lammy’s claim that the new protocol bill for Northern Ireland “breaks international law”. Lammy criticised the move which ”divides the UK and European Union when we should be pulling together”. Truss told MPs that nothing said by Lammy “is accurate”, and that the…
In a statement to the House of Commons, foreign secretary Liz Truss updated the House of Commons on the war in Ukraine. Truss announced further sanctions including on the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and Russia’s children’s rights commissioner. The secretary of state underlined the UK’s continued commitment to Ukraine, telling the House that…
Labour have this afternoon criticised the foreign secretary’s plans for the future of UK international development. Labour’s shadow international development minister Preet Kaur Gill said the public would prefer an aid budget that was geared toward: “help[ing] those most in need around the world, not horse-traded for favours to big British corporations”. She went on:…
Next Tory leader – latest Betfair Exchange odds Liz Truss 13/2 Rishi Sunak 7/1 Tom Tugenhadt 8/1 Jeremy Hunt 10/1 Penny Mourdant 10/1 Ben Wallace 11/1 Sajid Javid 12/1 Michael… The post Rishi Sunak no longer Tory leadership favourite as Liz Truss overtakes Chancellor on Grand National Day appeared first on London Business News |…
The foreign secretary Liz Truss today announced that the UK has imposed sanctions on 65 more Russian people and businesses in order to cut off”vital industries fuelling Putin’s war machine”.… The post UK slaps sanctions on 65 more Russian people appeared first on London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com.
The British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said she is “appalled by Russian atrocities in Mariupol” and the “abduction and deportation of Ukrainians” being sent to “filtration camps” in Russia.… The post Liz Truss is ‘appalled by Russian atrocities in Mariupol’ and civilians sent to ‘filtration camps’ like ‘Nazi Germany’ appeared first on London Business…
The foreign secretary has claimed that western powers failed to fence in Putin as they “let down” their guard in the wake of the Cold War. Truss told the Sun newspaper that Vladimir Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea was not responded to adequately as the West “let down our guard” following the demise of the…
The defence secretary has seemingly contradict the foreign secretary this morning, as he argued there are “better ways” to help Ukraine than by travelling to fight there. Liz Truss told the BBC on Sunday that she endorsed Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s call for an international resistance force to help Ukraine defend against the Russian invasion.…
