Things could go from bad to worse. U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace wants to be the next secretary general of NATO. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak talked him up in Hiroshima, where he was attending the G7 Summit. “I know he’s widely respected by his peers for the role that he has played,” Sunak told ITV News in Hiroshima on May 19, reported the U.K. military news site forces.net. “He’s focused right now on supporting Ukraine. He’s doing a great job of that.”
“I’ve always said it would be a good job. That’s a job I’d like,” Wallace had said during a recent visit to Berlin, where he met German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius. “But I’m also loving the job I do now. I mean, to be Defense Secretary of the British government at a time of reform and investment, just like Boris Pistorius.”