Her role as foreign minister will continue alongside her new position leading negotiations for the Northern Ireland Protocol.
This follows Lord Frost’s resignation as Brexit minister on Saturday.
Downing Street announced that Chris Heaton-Harris, MP, will be the minister of state for Europe.
Wendy Morton will replace Mr Heaton-Harris at the Transport Department. She was previously with the Foreign Office.
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Conservative MPs are divided over Lord Frost’s departure, who quit citing “concerns regarding the current direction of travel” of the government.
Boris Johnson was informed by the peer that he was concerned about Covid policy and urged him to refrain from imposing “coercive” measures.
Some Tory backbench MPs who agree with Lord Frost’s views called his departure a “disaster”.
Others in the party however said that it provided a chance for the party to “press reset” in negotiations with EU.
Liz Truss is a multi-tasking worker.
She is the foreign secretary, minister for women, equalities and lead negotiator to the EU regarding the Northern Ireland Protocol.
This is a huge short.
Chris Heaton Harris, a former MEP who voted in favour of Leave in 2016, was her deputy.
Some Tory backbenchers may be pleased to have him around, as they were not happy to see Lord Frost go.
Will Liz Truss be able to approach the EU negotiations like her predecessor?
Although it’s still early days, I have heard some initial suggestions that there won’t be any radical changes in policy.
The UK’s pre-Truss approach was already changing in some areas. According to a source close to the foreign secretary, “Liz is friends with David and they look at the same things. But Liz will add her own stamp and do it the Liz Truss Way.”
However, the foreign secretary is not as confident as she may think. She inherits a difficult and sensitive task.
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Ms Truss voted for Remain in the EU referendum 2016. She stated that continued membership was in Britain’s economic interests.
Since then, she has stated that she would support Brexit if there were another referendum.
Maros Sefcovic is the EU’s chief post-Brexit negotiator. He said that he would “continue cooperating with the UK in a similar constructive spirit on all important missions ahead, including the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland”.
Since the 2019 agreement between the UK and EU, the Northern Ireland Protocol has been a sticking point. Some businesses claim it makes it harder to ship goods to Northern Ireland from Great Britain.
Lord Frost made the following statement about recent talks between the UK’s and EU regarding gaps: “There have been some progress, however, not as much and not as fast as we had hoped.”
Labour’s Baroness Chapman stated that while she congratulated Ms Truss for her appointment, the government should “now stop their needless pretensions and work towards an agreement.”
Elizabeth Truss was appointed foreign secretary during the September last reshuffle, replacing Dominic Raab.
She rose to one of the greatest offices of state and was able to navigate Whitehall quickly. In fact, she took on her first government job in just two years after being elected MP for South West Norfolk in 2010.
She started in the education department before she became secretary of state in 2014 for environment, food, and rural affairs.
In 2016, she was Lord Chancellor and justice Secretary. She then became chief secretary to Treasury until 2019, when she became international trade secretary.
Ms Truss played this role and helped the UK reach a variety of post-Brexit trade agreements with countries such as Australia, Japan, and New Zealand.
Lord Frost’s resignation was due to a significant by-election defeat suffered by the Conservatives. They lost the once safe seat of North Shropshire, which they had held, to the Liberal Democrats.
Lord Frost, in his resignation letter, expressed disapproval with the tightened coronavirus regulations in England which saw Mr Johnson suffer his largest Commons rebellion to date.
