Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has appointed a long list of cross-party ‘Trade Envoys’ to “engage with their respective markets” and promote Labour’s “growth mission and deliver our Plan for Change“. Whatever that actually is…
One appointment that stands out is long-time socialist Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy, who has been named official Trade Envoy to Ghana. Ribeiro-Addy, who chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for “Afrikan Reparations”, has long called for UK taxpayers to foot the bill for reparations. She’ll have much to talk about in her new role then, considering Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has also campaigned for reparations and even pushed for a united front with African leaders to seek compensation. Eyebrow-raising…
Read the full list of 32 Trade Envoys below:
- Sarah Olney – Trade Envoy to North Africa
- Yasmin Qureshi – Trade Envoy to Egypt
- Calvin Bailey – Trade Envoy to Southern Africa
- Ben Coleman – Trade Envoy to Morocco and Francophone West Africa
- Jane Ramsey – Trade Envoy to Ethiopia
- Bell Ribeiro-Addy – Trade Envoy to Ghana
- Flo Eshalomi – Trade Envoy to Nigeria
- Kate Osamor – Trade Envoy to East Africa
- Dr Rosena Allin-Khan – Trade Envoy to South Africa
- John Spellar – Trade Envoy to Australia
- Carolyn Harris – Trade Envoy to New Zealand
- Tom Watson – Trade Envoy to the Republic of Korea
- Richard Faulkner – Trade Envoy to Taiwan
- Naz Shah – Trade Envoy to Indonesia and ASEAN
- Matt Western – Trade Envoy to Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
- George Freeman – Trade Envoy to Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Brunei
- Sharon Hodgson – Trade Envoy to Japan
- Afzal Khan – Trade Envoy to Türkiye
- Alex Sobel – Trade Envoy to Ukraine
- Ian Austin – Trade Envoy to Israel
- David Pinto-Duschinsky – Trade Envoy to Switzerland & Lichtenstein
- John Alderdice – Trade Envoy to Azerbaijan and Central Asia
- Iain McNicol – Trade Envoy to Jordan, Kuwait and Palestine Territories
- Mohammad Yasin – Trade Envoy to Pakistan
- Dan Carden – Trade Envoy to Mexico
- Fabian Hamilton – Trade Envoy to Southern Cone
- Paulette Hamilton – Trade Envoy to Commonwealth Caribbean
- Roger Liddle – Trade Envoy to Andean
- Josh MacAlister – Trade Envoy to Brazil
- Jessica Morden – Trade Envoy to Central America
- John Hannett – Trade Envoy to Sri Lanka
- Rosie Winterton – Trade Envoy to Bangladesh
