Former England cricket team captain Lord Bothham appointed as Australia’s trade envoy

worm U.K Cricket team captain Lord Bothham has been appointed by the government as special trade envoy Australia.

Lord Bothham has been announced as one of the 10 special trade envoys the government hopes to help “realize the ambitious global trade agenda.”

The peer who was named noble by the Prime Minister last year led the England Test Cricket team from 1980 to 1981, including two Ashes series against Australia.

The other nine new envoys are all parliamentarians, sitting separately House of Lords Or as a member of parliament and elected from different political parties.

International Trade Minister Liz Truss stated that Lord Botham will “fight for U.K Business decline”.

She added: “Our trade envoys play a key role in realizing our ambitious global trade agenda. I am very pleased that the Prime Minister has appointed 10 trade envoys who will increase opportunities for British companies in some of the world’s fastest-growing markets. .

“By promoting exports, promoting inward investment and creating high-value, high-paying jobs, our trade envoy will help us better rebuild from Covid-19, ensuring that every part of the UK benefits from our trade strategy. “

With Lord Bothham’s appointment as Australia’s trade envoy, the former labor MP and now non-affiliated counterpart Baroness Hoey have been appointed to Ghana, Stephen Tims The MPs (Labour Party) have been appointed as the Swiss and Liechtenstein MPs, the David Mundell MP (Conservative Party) have been appointed as the New Zealand MPs, and Mark Eastwood MP (Conservative Party) has been appointed as the Pakistan MPs.

MP Marco Longhi (Conservative Party) has been appointed as a Brazilian MP, Conor Burns MP (Conservative Party) has been appointed as a Canadian MP, non-affiliated colleague Lord Walney John Woodcock has been appointed as a Tanzanian MP, Felicity Buchan MP (Conservative Party) ) Has been appointed as the Prime Minister’s special trade envoy to Egypt, Iceland and Norway, and Sir Jeffrey Donaldson (DUP) have been appointed as Cameroonian parliamentarians.

These roles are free and voluntary, bringing the total number of trade envoys who help support the British government’s “Trade and Investment Agenda” to 36, covering 76 different countries.