Belligerent Badenoch also called out for lying
"Canada contradicts Kemi Badenoch claims on ‘ongoing’ trade talks
Latest spat for business secretary as Ottawa’s diplomat in London writes to MPs saying no negotiations happening"
"Kemi Badenoch, business and trade secretary, was on Tuesday locked in a new political row, this time over her contested claim that she was engaged in trade talks with Canada, negotiations Ottawa insists do not exist.
Badenoch told MPs “explicitly” on January 29 that talks with Canada were “ongoing” to avoid a March 31 tariff cliff-edge for UK carmakers, even though she had earlier unilaterally paused wider trade talks with the Ottawa government.
But the Canadian high commissioner to the UK, Ralph Goodale, has written to the House of Commons business select committee to insist Badenoch’s claimed talks, which also cover cheesemakers, have not happened."
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She is separately engaged in a bitter row with Henry Staunton, whom she sacked as Post Office chair last month.
"Canada contradicts Kemi Badenoch claims on ‘ongoing’ trade talks
Latest spat for business secretary as Ottawa’s diplomat in London writes to MPs saying no negotiations happening"
"Kemi Badenoch, business and trade secretary, was on Tuesday locked in a new political row, this time over her contested claim that she was engaged in trade talks with Canada, negotiations Ottawa insists do not exist.
Badenoch told MPs “explicitly” on January 29 that talks with Canada were “ongoing” to avoid a March 31 tariff cliff-edge for UK carmakers, even though she had earlier unilaterally paused wider trade talks with the Ottawa government.
But the Canadian high commissioner to the UK, Ralph Goodale, has written to the House of Commons business select committee to insist Badenoch’s claimed talks, which also cover cheesemakers, have not happened."
FT.com
She is separately engaged in a bitter row with Henry Staunton, whom she sacked as Post Office chair last month.