UK Ditches Former PM Truss’s Plan to Relocate Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem
Britain’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has abandoned plans by his predecessor to move the UK embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Downing Street has revealed.
Liz Truss, when she was prime minister, ordered a review into whether the UK should follow the Trump administration in relocating the embassy from Tel Aviv.
Asked whether the government is still considering a move, a spokeswoman for the Prime Minister’s Office said on Nov. 3: “It has been looked at. There are no plans to move the British embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv.”
Prime Minister Liz Truss meets with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid at the UN building in New York on Sep. 21, 2022. (PA)
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Since the creation of Israel in 1948, Britain has had its embassy in Tel Aviv, even as Jerusalem has been designated as the official capital….