George Osborne has gone, Phillip Hammond is in No 11, David Davis and Liam Fox are back in the Cabinet – and Boris Johnson is the new Foreign Secretary. Theresa May’s reshuffle has made headlines around the world – and Boris’ appointment in particular has been a big talking point. In this week’s Spectator podcast, Isabel Hardman talks to James Forsyth, Fraser Nelson, and Colleen Graffy, a former official in the US State Department. Here’s what she has to say about Boris:
‘He is a particularly attractive combination of being a politician who speaks both knowledgeably and eloquently, but different from any politician that’s in America. So I think that he will be attractive in articulating things that are important to the United States now on foreign policy.’
And what to make of Liam Fox’s Cabinet comeback? Prof.
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