UK’s Truss calls for ‘calmness, unity’ after Johnson resignation

By AFP 7 July 2022, 3:35 pm

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Britain's Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss delivers a speech during the 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, on March 1, 2022. (SALVATORE DI NOLFI /AFP)

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss calls for “calmness and unity” after Boris Johnson quit as Conservative Party leader following a series of scandals and an exodus of cabinet ministers.

“The PM has made the right decision. The Government under Boris’s leadership had many achievements — delivering Brexit, vaccines and backing Ukraine. We need calmness and unity now and to keep governing while a new leader is found,” she tweets from Bali where she is scheduled to attend a G20 ministerial meeting on Friday.