British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace may simply resign from his post ahead of the expected autumn reshuffle of the British cabinet. Bloomberg reports it based on The Times. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is said to have already set his sights on the upcoming election.
The newspaper claims that Wallace could think of a departure, without linking precise sources. According to a source close to Wallace, the minister will make his decision next month, which would have nothing to do with the current problems facing the British Conservatives.
Wallace, 53, replaced current Speaker of the British House of Commons Penny Mordaunt as defense minister when Boris Johnson became prime minister in 2019. He held the position during Liz Truss’s short-lived premiership and under Sunak. Furthermore, he has been largely responsible for British policy towards Ukraine since the outbreak of war.
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More recently, Wallace saw his ambition to become NATO’s new chief executive quietly die when the alliance extended the term of incumbent president Jens Stoltenberg by a year. Last month, US President Joe Biden called Wallace a “highly qualified” man for the position but did not make an official recommendation.
Wallace made headlines again this week as he told a NATO summit in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius that “Ukrainian representatives should be a little more grateful” for the many millions of dollars they have received in aid. “We are not Amazon,” Wallace said.
Source: BNR
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