Liz Truss lands in US to reset ‘special relationship’ on first foreign trip as PM

Liz Truss will also visit the UN general assembly where she will underline Britain’s long-term commitment to Ukraine. Photograph: Frank Augstein/AP

Liz Truss has arrived in the US where she will hold talks with Joe Biden, the US president, on her first foreign trip as UK prime minister.

Relations between the two leaders are already strained by her threats as foreign secretary to rip up the post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland.