Since Liz Truss was appointed Foreign Secretary in Boris Johnson’s reshuffle, she has upped the ante when it comes to the visual element of the job. As well as appointing a new special adviser focussed on social media (who can no doubt compete with Rishi Sunak’s own social media whizz kid Cass Horowitz), Truss rarely misses a photo opp whether it’s for Instagram or tomorrow’s front pages.
Today is no exception. After warning this morning ahead of a meeting of Nato counterparts in Latvia that a Russian incursion into Ukraine would be a strategic mistake, Truss appears to have adopted the view that a picture can say a thousand words. The Foreign Secretary has been photographed riding in a tank in Estonia. The shot has clear parallels with the 1986 shot of Margaret Thatcher in a British tank in West Germany visiting British forces.
As Truss celebrates a year at the top of the ConservativeHome cabinet league table and talk increases of her as a successor to Johnson (with red wall MPs allegedly setting up a ‘Liz for leader’ group), what ever could Truss and her team be trying to say?
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