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A new prime ministership announces itself in small gestures before large ones.
Prime Minister Burnham has received the first foreign leader to visit since taking office, a moment that, however thin the public record, prompts the obvious question: what does the sequence say about where Britain's new government intends to stand?
What the visit signals Diplomatic sequencing at the head-of-government level is rarely accidental. Which foreign leader walks through the door first is a message read by every capital that did not send theirs.
For markets watching UK trade and energy policy after a change in government, early diplomatic traffic is one of the few readable signals available before substantive policy detail arrives.
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