foreign secretary
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But Tugendhat, the Tory MP for Tonbridge in Kent who Badenoch appointed her shadow foreign secretary in a reshuffle earlier this month, has suggested Trump does not mean it.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Britain’s new foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, has taken the U.K.’s governor seat at the World Bank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
To date, Mexico has received partial or no responses to complaints sent to the eight states where the 17 deaths of Mexican citizens occurred, Roberto Velasco, Mexican’s foreign secretary, said last week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
“It’s terrible that a man has lost his life, I think, because others were so keen on having him burnish their credentials,” said James Cleverly, a former U.K. foreign secretary who is Black.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
In England, foreign secretary Anthony Eden said he “deeply regretted” the news, and then set about pressuring the French not to overreact.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
