Alistair Burt – 2022 Comments on Liz Truss Saying Jury out on French President

The comments made by Alistair Burt on Twitter on 26 August 2022, following Liz Truss, the Foreign Secretary, saying that the “jury is still out” on whether Emmanuel Macron was a friend or foe of the UK.

This is a desperately serious error, which the Foreign Secretary should take back. The better answer would have been ‘of course he and France are friends and allies, both in NATO and the cause of freedom: it doesn’t mean we don’t have our differences and need to talk honestly, as I will’.