Truss appoints Clevery as new foreign minister
(CNS): Prime Minister Liz Truss (47) took up office on Tuesday after winning the Conservative Party leadership vote on Monday. As she began filling the big jobs in her new frontbench, she named James Cleverly as foreign secretary. Cleverly (53) was made education secretary just two months ago in Boris Johnson’s caretaker government but he has served in the foreign office before as a junior minister. Cleverly has risen rapidly through the Conservative ranks since he was first elected as an MP for Braintree in 2015.
Other close Truss allies filling the top five Cabinet posts are Kwasi Kwarteng, who has been confirmed as the new chancellor of the Exchequer, in charge of the economy; Thérèse Coffey, the new health secretary and deputy prime minister; Suella Braverman, the new home secretary; and Ben Wallace, who stays as defence secretary.
It is not yet known if Amanda Milling, the Foreign Office minister with responsibility for the overseas territories, will be fired, keep that job or be promoted. Milling backed Truss during the contentious leadership fight, which she described as “toxic and bruising for the Conservative party brand”.
On Tuesday, Truss travelled to Balmoral Castle in Scotland, where the Queen formally requested her to form a government, as is traditional. In her first speech as PM she said Britain could “ride out the storm” of the worst economic crisis in a generation and she would transform the country into an “aspiration nation”.
“We shouldn’t be daunted by the challenges we face, as strong as the storm may be. I know that the British people are stronger,” Truss said. “Our country was built by people who can get things done. We have huge reserves of talent, of energy, of determination. I am confident that together we can ride out the storm. We can rebuild our economy and we can become the modern, brilliant Britain I know we can be.”
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CNS- minor point, Ben Wallace is one of the Secretaries of State, in his case for Defense, not a lesser defense minister.
CNS: Point taken.
Of the three senior appointees.one has Ghanaian parents, one a mother from Sierra Leone, and the third has Indian parentage. Westminster has many sitting M.P’s of ethnic background.Compare this with Cayman where nobody without a sixth generation Caymanian parentage will ever get anywhere near our House of Parliament let alone a cabinet role.We now have a large expatriate resident population, many with professional qualifications, without a voice in Government.
Personally, I’d prefer competence over diversity quotas. Also, Truss’s new cabinet has gone on the insane root of diversity where you now have no white men on the front bench despite the UK having a population that is 87% white. Many people would call this progress but I call it the demonization of the majority of the population.
I prefer Martin Luther King Jr’s view on things:
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Be that person black, white, or green with purple polka dots.
Kwasi Kwarteng got a double 1st from Cambridge, went to Havard on a JFK Scholarship, got a PhD from Cambridge in Economic Hostory and worked for JPMorgan before becoming an MP. Let’s hear what qualifications you have for your job 3:55.
7:54 I have BSc and an MSc in biological sciences. Thanks for asking. Very kind of you to care about my education 🙂
So not nearly as qualified as a man you imply only has his job due to “diversity”. Also note you don’t say from where so I’m going to hazard a guess 2nd tier Uni at best. Shouldn’t you be lurking in the Daily Mail comments section?
11:48 I am not required to tell you where thanks. But you are wrong to assume it was a second-tier uni. it is currently ranked in the top 10 for my field thanks. I never said I was more qualified than these men/women but I wanted to point out that I was also not just some keyboard warrior who hadn’t even finished high school.
I repeat as you seem to struggle to grasp what I said. I don’t care who is elected or the colour of their skin as long as they do the job well.
Also my favourite for the next prime minister was Kemi Badenoch who unless you need your eyes tested is a women of colour. You want to know why I like her!? because she is intelligent, resourceful and upholds conservative values and actually cares about the UK. sadly she didn’t get in and we are now stuck with Truss.
What is your educational background dare I ask? 🙂
Your comments reflect a Trumpian view of the world. Just suck it up! This so called diversity in color politics doesn’t change the aggressive white supremacy highjack of the earth. These appointees are just as dangerous to people of colour as Clarence Thomas. Fear not. White supremacy rules everywhere on the earth. Your quote of Martin Luther king is 😂 hilarious. See what white supremacy did to him? Peace out
Hue Man have you been watching too much mainstream US news? Maybe switch off the TV for a bit go out and get some fresh air. Not everyone who has issues with diversity quotas is a white supremacist. But I doubt you would believe otherwise.
I recall similar sentiments were offered to the Jews under Herr Hitler by their well meaning neighbors. Thanks for your simple solutions. But I’ve cut my cable as I refuse to pay for brainwashing.
Easy solution then…leave!!!
They do have a voice and can use it to talk to their MP elected in their constituency.
What they cannot do is run for office, which is fair, because they can run for office in their original country of origin, but their grandchildren can run for office.
Point well taken and as a 6th Generational Caymanian couldn’t agree more and we sure could use some fresh knowledge from “New Caymanians”. However do note that Hon Minster Chris Saunders is 100% Jamaican, so we’re taking some steps to change this rule/mindset.
You are wrong. Saunders is Caymanian. He was raised in Jamaica.
Saunders can run for office because he is Caymanian as of right.
If you want to be in office, and you’re a status grantee, then don’t worry because your grandchildren can do so.
Both parents are Jamaicans, he’s Caymanian by Status not by bloodline. Yet, I believe anyone that’s a proud/respectful Caymanian and is qualified should be allowed to run for office.
Oh you have a voice don’t think we’re daft . We know who pushes the buttons behind the scenes well maybe not some of those who we see and feel their frothing at the nit wanting to get their hands in the kitti because you’re Anglo Saxon with a pedigree Ha! Poor you. Keep dreaming.
Listen if you value the harmony, peace and quiet and your bank account cease snd desist. Getting to the point that warnings may not be seen as optional anymore. Kapish!!!
Looks like a free market conservative. Not bad for Cayman like the last one.
A populist like Boris, not a free market conservative. First thing she does is introduce price controls on energy. Not exactly free market is it.
Love the trashy Brit ish politricks. Go on y’all beat up on each other. “Oh no dare say they the natives think we are arguing, they obviously don’t understand intellectual conversation” . Arguing you are intellectual my …!
All tory party MPs are just awful. This appointment doesn’t change anything.
They aren’t good and even people who voted conservative don’t like Truss or her cronies. However, labor would be a hell of a lot worse.
You can’t even spell Labour.
My dyslexia doesn’t affect my IQ but then I guess spelling matters more you than politics.
Dyslexia has nothing to do with spelling Labour as labor.
Dyslexia has everything to do with spelling smart ass.
So no political subtlety or bias on your part, 8:11!