英保守党：弃保效应 Mordaunt 出局，保守党内在外相 Truss 和前财相 Sunak 之间投票，老伦敦正米字旗的 Truss 以 81326票 (57.4%) 击败 Sunak 60399票当选首相。美警告 Truss 不要单方面撕毁英国与欧盟间的《北爱尔兰议定书》
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How will Britain's next prime minister be announced?
Britain will get a new prime minister next week, with either Foreign Secretary Liz Truss or former finance minister Rishi Sunak being announced on Monday as the next leader of the governing Conservative Party, and the next prime minister.
Liz Truss is ready for fight with EU by tearing up Northern Ireland Protocol in latest Brexit spat
Liz Truss ready for EU clash by tearing up Northern Ireland Protocol
Tory Leadership frontrunner Liz Truss is said to be considering plans to tear up the Northern Ireland Protocol by triggering Article 16 if she succeeds Boris Johnson next month.
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Liz Truss could suspend parts of the Brexit trade deal in her first ten days as prime minister, The Times has learnt.Officials working for the favourite to succ
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What will the UK's new prime minister Liz Truss mean for Europe?
The UK's new leader has antagonised Brussels by spearheading the move to override the Brexit deal on Northern Ireland, and analysts fear relations will remain fractious.
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How will Britain's next prime minister be announced?
Britain will get a new prime minister next week, with either Foreign Secretary Liz Truss or former finance minister Rishi Sunak being announced on Monday as the next leader of the governing Conservative Party, and the next prime minister.www.reuters.com
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How will Britain's next prime minister be announced?
Britain will get a new prime minister next week, with either Foreign Secretary Liz Truss or former finance minister Rishi Sunak being announced on Monday as the next leader of the governing Conservative Party, and the next prime minister.
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Liz Truss ready for EU clash by tearing up Northern Ireland Protocol
Tory Leadership frontrunner Liz Truss is said to be considering plans to tear up the Northern Ireland Protocol by triggering Article 16 if she succeeds Boris Johnson next month.www.dailymail.co.uk
Truss plans to suspend Northern Ireland protocol in first 10 days
Liz Truss could suspend parts of the Brexit trade deal in her first ten days as prime minister, The Times has learnt.Officials working for the favourite to succ
When the UK’s newly appointed foreign secretary, Liz Truss, met her US counterpart Antony Blinken for the first time last September, the conversation was far from diplomatic.
According to people briefed on the discussion, Truss questioned the special relationship between the two countries — a concept that has underpinned the US-UK alliance since the phrase was popularised by Britain’s wartime prime minister Winston Churchill in the 1940s.
Truss said she had seen few tangible examples to support the idea that the relationship was particularly unique, one of the people said, citing Britain’s better trade relations with Canada, Japan and Mexico, as well as a dispute over steel tariffs with the US.
“Her attitude was ‘what have you done for me lately?’,” the person said.
That conversation was emblematic of a style described as blunt, binary and assertive by US officials and analysts, some of whom said Truss was quick to take maximalist positions without thinking of the consequences.
With Truss on course to become the next UK prime minister on September 5 following a bruising Conservative party leadership election, the US foreign policy establishment is asking whether she will bring her bombast from the Foreign Office to Downing Street.
“Truss is going to be a lot more assertive in standing up to the Biden administration than Boris Johnson,” said Nile Gardiner, of the rightwing Heritage Foundation think-tank in Washington.
On the Ukraine war, which has dominated Truss’s period as foreign secretary, the US and UK have presented a united front and co-ordinated closely to declassify intelligence before and after Russian president Vladimir Putin’s invasion.
But beneath the veneer of solidarity, Truss has at times irked her American counterparts, according to people briefed on their thinking.
In a speech in April she called for the countries to work together on a Marshall Plan for Ukraine, an echo of the US programme that funded the reconstruction of western Europe after the second world war. The speech “raised eyebrows” in the Biden administration, according to a US official, given that Britain has given billions less in economic and lethal aid to Kyiv than Washington has.
It was but one instance of an approach that another senior administration official described as “very black and white”, where her rhetoric has frequently outstripped British commitments and American policy.
In March, Truss said the US and UK must “work together to ensure that Putin loses in Ukraine”, while in July she said the Russian president needed to “suffer a strategic defeat”.
Meanwhile, the US has recently backed away from talk of outright defeat of Russia. And after President Joe Biden used a speech in Warsaw in March to declare that Putin could not remain in power, his aides were forced to make clear the US was not advocating for regime change.
Truss and her team, meanwhile, have at times been frustrated by Washington’s unwillingness to take a harder line on Russia, said a person familiar with the matter.
“As the administration is trying to find ways to navigate through increasingly tense situations, her clarity can work against some of their interests,” said Heather Conley, president of the German Marshall Fund of the US.
Conley added that Truss appeared less concerned than the US about “provoking a potential escalation” and had not engaged in the same “sort of hedging” as American diplomats.
However, some US officials characterised the tensions as the kinds of squabbles that siblings often have and said they would not fundamentally alter Anglo-American ties.
The US state department declined to comment. The White House and Truss’s leadership team did not respond to a request for comment.
The special relationship has ebbed and flowed in recent decades. Ronald Reagan was particularly close to Margaret Thatcher, who described him as “the second most important man” in her life after her husband. Bill Clinton and Tony Blair revelled in their status as two young leaders ushering in a new brand of centrist progressive politics on either side of the Atlantic.
But Blair’s decision to stay close to the US during George W Bush’s presidency and to support the invasion of Iraq resulted in accusations that he was Bush’s poodle.
Under Barack Obama, ties were at times frosty. The British press had a field day when the US president gifted Gordon Brown a box set of DVDs in return for a pen holder carved from the timbers of an anti-slave ship. The UK tabloids also seized on Obama’s decision to remove the bust of Churchill from the Oval Office.
As foreign secretary and before that trade secretary, Truss has cultivated ties in the Biden administration and on Capitol Hill and is better known across the Atlantic than her opponent in the Conservative leadership race, Rishi Sunak.
She met Biden alongside Johnson last September at the White House, an encounter that aides described as “warm”. Truss and Biden are also likely to hold a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, which takes place shortly after Truss is expected to become UK prime minister.
Sources close to the foreign secretary suggest that Truss is unlikely to take the UK in a radically different foreign policy direction to her predecessor, continuing to focus on Ukraine and taking a hawkish approach to countering the influence of China.
Truss sees the US as one of the UK’s most important partnerships from an economic and security perspective and will prioritise the relationship during her premiership, said an ally of the foreign secretary.
Recommended Janan Ganesh Some bleak truths for Britain Truss’s efforts to cast herself as an heir to Thatcher have won her many supporters in Republican foreign policy circles, who appreciate her embrace of free trade and conservative bona fides.
“Truss is widely admired by conservatives in DC,” said Gardiner, who has hosted Truss at the Heritage Foundation. “She is viewed as a radical Thatcherite politician who is not afraid to shake things up.”
But while she is not short of fans on the right, her stance on Brexit and Northern Ireland has caused friction with Democrats, and has the potential to further complicate US-UK relations.
Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, said after a phone call with Truss this summer that she was “deeply concerned” by the UK government’s intention to discard the post-Brexit Northern Ireland protocol.
Truss said earlier this month she would not bow to the pressure. “I took on responsibility for negotiating the Northern Ireland protocol . . . and I will be very clear with people like Nancy Pelosi exactly what I think about this and exactly what we need to do,” she said.
Mujtaba Rahman, managing director for Europe at the Eurasia Group, said Truss’s uncompromising stance on the protocol “immediately puts [her] in direct confrontation with the EU”. He added: “As long as this relationship with Europe festers, you’re not going to get the UK-US relationship working at its full potential.”
Additional reporting by Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe in London
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Liz Truss vows tax cuts after winning vote to be next British prime minister
Liz Truss has been elected as the Conservative Party's new leader, the party announced Monday, and she will take office Tuesday as Britain's new prime minister to steer the country through an acute cost of living crisis.
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New cabinet: Who is in Liz Truss's top team?
A guide to the people in Prime Minister Liz Truss's cabinet, with the new faces, as well as those who have changed roles.
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White House warns Truss over efforts to 'undo' Northern Island protocol
NI Protocol: White House warns again against unilateral action
The White House says efforts to undo the NI Protocol could hurt US-UK trade talks.
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White House warns Truss over efforts to ‘undo’ Northern Ireland protocol
Biden administration says undoing the protocol would not be ‘conducive’ to a trade deal between the UK and US
The Biden administration has sent Liz Truss a message on her second day in office warning against “efforts to undo the Northern Ireland protocol”.
The warning came from the lectern in the White House briefing room, where spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about new British prime minister Truss’s first phone call with Joe Biden and whether a US-UK trade deal was discussed.
Northern Ireland was not mentioned in the question, but Jean-Pierre brought it up anyway.
“There’s no formal linkage on trade talks between the US and the UK and the Northern Ireland protocol, as we have said, but efforts to undo the Northern Ireland protocol would not create a conducive environment, and that’s basically where we are in the dialogue,” Jean-Pierre said.
“Not conducive to a trade deal” is the administration’s established position on British threats, spearheaded by Truss, to pass legislation negating part of the Northern Ireland protocol.
The protocol is the UK’s deal with the EU on how to square Brexit with an open border between the two Irelands established by the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement. The US helped broker that agreement and there is adamant bipartisan opposition to any move that might jeopardise it.
Truss’s determined support for Ukraine’s defence is welcomed in Washington, but her position on the protocol is seen as the major irritation in bilateral relations.
The White House was taken by surprise by Truss’s announcement in May, when she was foreign secretary, that the government would proceed with legislation that would rewrite parts of the protocol, in a manner widely considered to be a breach of international law. Boris Johnson had assured the Biden team that no decision had been taken.
The legislation is winding its way through parliament and the US has warned the government not to put it to a vote or risk rupture with both the US and EU.
The tension was evident in pointed differences between the official accounts of the Truss-Biden phone call. The Downing Street version said they had “agreed on the importance of protecting the Belfast (Good Friday) agreement”.
The White House readout said they “discussed their shared commitment to protecting the gains of the Belfast/Good Friday agreement and the importance of reaching a negotiated agreement with the European Union on the Northern Ireland protocol”.
Addressing parliament on Wednesday, Truss said: “My preference is for a negotiated solution, but it does have to deliver all of the things we set out in the Northern Ireland protocol bill, and what we cannot allow is for this situation to drift.”
US officials welcomed her stated preference for talks, and the message delivered from the White House on Wednesday was intended to deter her from giving up on them, warning the tenor of the relationship could be at stake.
Asked if Biden and Truss would meet at the UN general assembly later this month, Jean-Pierre said: “We don’t have a meeting or anything like that to read out at this time.”
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