David Davis, the former Brexit chancellor and a Truss supporter, on Sunday said she would face the most challenging in-tray of any new prime minister since the second world war since Margaret Thatcher. Some commentators questioned whether the circumstances are even more challenging than those the Iron Lady faced in 1979.
Yet less attention has been paid to the long list of fraught international issues that will immediately face the next prime minister, be it Ms Truss, the clear front-runner according to political insiders and the bookmakers, or Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor.
Ms Truss’s trip to America would be a reflection of the diplomatic calendar – the UN General Assembly takes place every year in late September and attendance in person by the British prime minister is expected.
But it reflects what would likely be a key drive in her early foreign policy: Picking up where…