Liz Truss to Foreign Sec, yes really: ‘Pork markets’ meme resurfaces
"Christ alive the foreign office is being run by Mrs Pork Markets."
"Christ alive the foreign office is being run by Mrs Pork Markets."
The international trade secretary said Brexit meant ditching long-held "assumptions and attitudes".
“Celebrating apples being exported to India when we are losing the ability to export many products to the EU is just a distraction," a British farmer told The London Economic.
She also couldn't think of one person who welcomed the report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, which found no evidence of institutional racism.
In a stinging letter, opposition MPs accused Truss of attempting to “shirk responsibility for the failures of your colleagues elsewhere in government”.
"253 people have been appointed by Liz Truss as trade advisers since July: 75% Men; 95% White; only one Black person. And this is the Minister for Women & Equalities!"
"Raises serious questions about the Government’s commitment to closing the gender pay gap when the department run by the minister for women and equalities is so clearly going backwards when it comes to average pay and bonuses."
"The freedom-orientated and ever-combative Truss" is more popular than ever, ConservativeHome said.
"UK government's own forecasts say that the EU/Japan FTA had more economic benefits for the UK than the UK/Japan FTA."
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