Russia says relations with Britain could get worse as Truss elected PM

She was named as the UK’s latest leader - and Britain’s third ever female PM - after a drawn-out Conservative party leadership campaign on Monday afternoon, defeating former chancellor Rishi Sunak to Number Ten.

The Kremlin fired a warning shot across the new government’s bows on Monday morning by claiming that the low in relations between Moscow and London could get even worse than they are now. Asked if President Vladimir Putin would send a congratulatory telegram, he said: “Let’s wait and see who becomes prime minister.”has for months been the target of withering scorn from Moscow“I wouldn’t like to say that things can change for the worse, because it’s hard to imagine anything worse,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said when asked if Moscow expected any shift in relations with Britain.

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