Their mourning & ours: Thousands queue, Truss engages in ‘international funeral diplomacy’
Not all will be mourning the Queen but thousands have been queueing in London to file by her coffin in Westminster Hall.
Meanwhile one person who is not mourning is Liz Truss. She has been engaged in what the Observer describes as ‘international funeral diplomacy. The paper explains that this is a feature of modern politics thanks to global air travel and, er, ‘refrigeration to preserve the deceased’ while world leaders fly in.
Truss met Australian PM Anthony Albanese and New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern at Truss’s official residence Chevening on Saturday. She will meet Poland’s President Duda and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau at Downing St on Sunday.
She won’t be meeting President Biden. A meeting will apparently take place at the UN on Wednesday, although the Sunday Times reports that a meeting was cancelled due to issues that the US has with Truss’s Head of Staff.
Meetings around funerals are hardly unknown. The miners Broad Left did a fair bit of organising in this way. After the funeral…
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