Now there is Boris Johnson as foreign secretary. “So you’ve got the map covered at this point.”Related: Britain's new foreign secretary Boris Johnson: a career of insults and gaffesJohnson arrives in his new post under new British prime minister Theresa May with unusually heavy baggage. For the second time in a month, Britain has given the Washington foreign policy establishment a surprise, and not a wholly pleasant one. John Kerry, the US secretary of state, called his new counterpart on Thursday and agreed that the US-UK special relationship was “as essential as ever”, spokesman John Kirby said. “In the same way Brexit undermined the British relationship with the EU, Boris Johnson will undermine the British relationship with the rest of the world,” said Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, a political consulting firm headquartered in New York.

Source: The Guardian July 14, 2016 18:19 UTC