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UK's Top Diplomat Shies Away from Filling Defense Chief’s Post

© AP Photo / Vadim GhirdaBritain's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly attends the second day of the meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs, in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022.
Britain's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly attends the second day of the meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs, in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. - Sputnik International, 1920, 20.07.2023
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MOSCOW, (Sputnik) - UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly asked UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday not to appoint him as Defense Secretary after reports emerged that the country's current defense chief, Ben Wallace, would resign.
"If anyone in the UK is watching, listening, particularly you Prime Minister, I very much want to stay put. … I have been a minister in our foreign department now since February of 2020, this is the job I know and the job I like to think I am good at and the job I adore," Cleverly said during the Aspen Security Forum 2023.
On Saturday, Wallace told a UK newspaper that he intended to resign in the fall and leave politics during a cabinet reshuffle planned by Sunak. On Monday, the newspaper reported that Cleverly could replace Wallace.
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