Ron DeSantis will meet the UK foreign secretary and dozens of business leaders in London on Friday as the Florida governor burnishes his foreign policy credentials ahead of an expected battle with Donald Trump for the Republican party’s presidential nomination.
DeSantis’s visit to Britain marks the end of a whirlwind tour of four countries as part of an international trade mission, officially billed as an effort to drum up foreign direct investment in Florida.
Earlier in the week, he travelled to Tokyo, Seoul and Jerusalem. He held talks with Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida, and met Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, which he hailed as “one of the most valued and trusted” allies of the US.