British Conservative leadership contender Liz Truss on Friday got a major boost to her campaign as Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said she is the candidate who “will do best by defence of this nation.”
Citing some of Truss’s previous roles, Wallace wrote in The Times of London that the foreign secretary is “the only candidate who has both the breadth and depth of experience needed” to confront the challenges the UK is facing, including the “severe” economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, “rampant global inflation,” Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the fact that “plenty of other states and non-state actors are challenging our security, prosperity, and values.”
