International Relations Expert Prof. Vladimir Antwi-Danso, has called on Africans not to expect anything positive with the election of Liz Truss as the new Prime Minister for the United Kingdom. Speaking on the Africa Watch Series on Class 91.3 FM’s flagship news program 505 with Korku Lumor, he emphasized that a change in the leadership of any Western country will not lead to any change in that country’s relations with Africa.
“When you have a change of personalities in any of the Western countries, we shouldn’t expect any change in the relationship between Africa and that particular country,” he said. “Nothing is going to change in British foreign policy towards Africa, nothing is going to change gender matters because most importantly, they will like to chart the very course, the pillars of British foreign policy, and that will be it.
“So I can’t imagine that there is going to be anything positive to inure to the benefit of Africa because there is a change. “I don’t see any veering off the course. So we shouldn’t expect anything different from what used to be,” he explained. Prof. Antwi-Danso indicated that Prime Minister Truss’ major preoccupation will be how to get the issues of Brexit and UK’s relationship with Europe, in line with the ongoing Ukraine-Russia, solved before considering issues of Africa.
“Especially so (when) she has a daunting task of finishing the Brexit or changing the course of Brexit. That’s more important to them. “And (its) relationship in trade terms with the rest of Europe, (its) relationship as far as the Ukraine War and the problems it’s having with Russia is concerned. “That will be more of a concern to her than a concern of Africa’s problems,” he argued.
Foreign Minister Liz Truss, was on Monday, September 5, 2022, elected as the new Prime Minister for the United Kingdom after winning the leadership race for the governing Conservative Party following weeks of the fierce contest.
She beat former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak, winning by about 57 percent of eligible votes among Conservative Party members.
