Source: United States Senator for Ohio Rob Portman
September 5, 2022 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and co-founder and co-chair of the Senate U.K. Trade Caucus, issued the following statement today congratulating Liz Truss on being elected Conservative Party leader and thus next Prime Minister of the U.K. Portman recently traveled to the U.K. to discuss implementing a free trade agreement.
“I congratulate Liz Truss on being elected Conservative Party Leader and thus the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. I have enjoyed working with her in her previous roles as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Secretary of State for International Trade. She has been an advocate for deepening our trade relationship and completing the U.S.-U.K. trade negotiations that began several years ago. Such an agreement would strengthen our relationship and economic competitiveness, and I look forward to working with her on that important initiative.
“Both of our countries face economic and foreign policy challenges but I am confident that if we leverage the effectiveness of the longstanding special relationship we have always enjoyed that we can help each other meet those challenges. To that end, the threat to democratic governance around the world has perhaps never been greater than it is today. Our allies Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel continue to find themselves under severe threat from malign regimes. I look forward to working together to strengthen our working relationship to support these and other allies throughout the world. The world needs to know that free countries stand up for their own in order to deter threats.”
NOTE: Senator Portman is co-founder and co-chair of the Senate U.K. Trade Caucus, aimed at promoting close and long-lasting economic ties between the U.S. and the U.K. by building congressional support for a bilateral trade agreement between the two countries.
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