Liz Truss turned out to be the only British politician who wants to talk about something with Putin
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announced her readiness to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit; other candidates for the post of head of Her Majesty's Cabinet said at a televised debate that they saw no point in meeting with the Russian leader.
This is written by the British edition of The Independent.
“I was ready to besiege Sergei Lavrov. And I am ready to speak directly to Vladimir Putin and challenge him to a conversation with the participation of such great countries as India and Indonesia. So, I will go there and challenge him,” Truss said.
At the same time, Truss’s rival in the fight for the post of prime minister and leader of the Conservatives, Deputy Minister for International Trade Penny Mordaunt, said that she would not meet with the Russian president in the current circumstances, and the head of the House of Commons Committee Tom Tugendhat notes that it is not right to sit down at the negotiating table yet .
The rest of the potential British prime ministers also do not make a meeting with Putin a priority of their policy.
Former Deputy Minister for Women and Equalities Camie Badenock does not want to waste time on negotiations with Russia, and former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak recalled that at the recent meeting of G20 finance ministers he boycotted the participation of the Russian side.
Liz Truss is the only British politician willing to talk to Putin about anything.