"We need to get back on track but before we can do that, there's something we need to say: sorry. Sorry on behalf of the Conservative parliamentary party who let you down, and we have to be better, much better, and under my leadership, we will be. The British people are never wrong. The British people told us to go and sort ourselves out. Let’s not make them tell us again."
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James Cleverly
James Spencer Cleverly TD VR (born 4 September 1969) is a British politician and Army Reserve officer. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Braintree in Essex since 2015. Cleverly advocated a vote for Brexit in the 2016 EU membership referendum. In September 2022, he was appointed Foreign Secretary by Prime Minister Liz Truss, making him the first British foreign secretary of African heritage. Retained as foreign secretary when Rishi Sunak became p
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