 under Ronald Reagan. Truss had been in the job 14 days. 'The officials kept telling her not to get her hopes up, don't get overexcited, this is just a preliminary meeting,'){kind=link}
Liz Truss hit the diplomatic stage with force in her first few months as international trade secretary, travelling to Washington, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and back to New York within her first eight weeks. Having honed her free-wheeling politics in the Treasury, it was time to go global.
On her first visit to Washington, Truss was given a clear brief ahead of a first meeting with her US counterpart. Robert Lighthizer had 30 years’ experience on the beat, a Trump-supporting protectionist who had first served the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) under Ronald Reagan. Truss had been in the job 14 days. “The officials kept telling her not to get her hopes up, don’t get overexcited, this is just a preliminary meeting,”
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