Foreign Office under Liz Truss has failed to regain global footing, report finds

Liz Truss leaving the Foreign Office, where she has overseen big changes that the report says have not worked. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

The Foreign Office has not regained its footing under the leadership of the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, staff morale is low, not enough employees are posted abroad, and there is an unsustainable lack of expertise on Russia, a report by the independent thinktank Institute for Government has found.

It also finds the merger between the Department for International Development (DfID) and the Foreign Office remains incomplete, and relations with other Whitehall departments are strained.