Derision for Liam Fox as he’s knocked out of race to lead World Trade Organisation
Liam Fox: bye bye.
Tory joke candidate Liam Fox has been knocked out of the race to become director-general of the World Trade Organisation.
According to the Torygraph, the former international trade secretary was eliminated before the last of three rounds to replace Roberto Azevedo, who stepped down a year earlier than expected at the end of August, so
Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee will go head-to-head to become the trade body’s first female director-general
The reaction has been what you might expect, considering the person involved.
Fox was forced out of an early David Cameron cabinet for letting a friend of his, Adam Werrity, into confidential defence meetings and taking him on foreign junkets.
He has since crept back into Tory cabinets and was Theresa May’s International Trade secretary.
But he is widely held to be another inept Tory fool.
So the reaction to his WTO failure was clear:
I bring you good news.
The disgraced former Cabinet Minister, Liam Fox, didn’t get that top job at the World Trade Organisation.
This is one less chance the Tories will get to humiliate us on the global stage.
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) October 7, 2020
Excellent news. The idea Liam Fox, an abject failure when Secretary of State for International Trade, was intellectually fit to head the WTO was too preposterous for words. It was a notion borne out of a delusional belief in British exceptionalism.https://t.co/azkZG2uXDA
— trevorw1953 (@trevorw1953) October 8, 2020
Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, former no. 2 at World Bank, economist from Harvard and MIT.
You Myung-Hee South Korean minister of trade, a senior trade official for 28 years much involved with the WTO.
By putting up a no-hope candidate like Liam Fox, the UK further became a laughing stock.— Craig Murray (@CraigMurrayOrg) October 7, 2020
Despite his abject ineptitude, Fox seems to be one of the survivors of the modern Tory Party, having managed to hang on in Parliament and in government circles for the last 10 years and more.
Let us hope this finishes him off and he retires to the obscurity he so richly deserves.
Source: Liam Fox knocked out of race to lead World Trade Organisation
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