UK Ditches Former PM Truss’s Plan to Relocate Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the House of Commons in London on Nov. 2, 2022. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Britain’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has abandoned plans by his predecessor to move the UK Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Downing Street has revealed.

Then-Prime Minister Liz Truss had ordered a review into whether the UK should follow the Trump administration in relocating the embassy from Tel Aviv.