Tag: Liz Truss

It comes as Liz Truss, UK’s foreign secretary, said this weekend that Putin has to intervene in the “shameful manufactured migrant crisis” unfolding at the Belarusian border. 

Liz Truss said Russia has a “clear responsibility” to end the escalating migrant stand-off between Belarus and Poland, adding the UK “will not look away”.

Truss was also told: "when the French don't play ball we want to take our toys home?"

“This is just what the government does time after time: blatant lies with no consequences and still no correction. It's shameless,” shadow secretary for international trade Emily Thornberry said about the post-Brexit deal hailed by Truss.

The UK wants to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.

“I think there is a tendency in this country to sort of overstate the amount of clout we have in the world these days," Sir David Lidington said.

“Partly I just want to hear that this is a top priority and that Nazanin and the others who are being held as bargaining chips will be brought home," husband Richard Ratcliffe has said.

She said Britain would always be a “fierce champion” of freedom around the world, but that freedoms "need to be defended".

Domestic beet producers are worried that the new UK-Australia trade deal will put them out of business.