Liz Truss, whose job is fighting discrimination, thinks it’s ‘irrelevant’ if her new trade chief is a ‘sexist homophobe’

Liz Truss doesn’t want to talk about former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott’s history of sexist and homophobic comments, despite his rumoured appointment as UK trade chief. Abbott, who fought tirelessly against the introduction of same-sex marriage in Australia despite the fact that his own sister is gay,...