LONDON — Liz Truss pushed through $1.15 billion in U.K. taxpayer support for a Mozambique gas project now embroiled in allegations of abduction, murder and rape.
Truss’ moves to back the project as trade secretary in the spring of 2020 were opposed by then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson and many of her Conservative Cabinet colleagues.
Britain’s new Labour government is now weighing whether to continue to offer taxpayer-funded direct loans and guarantees to U.K. exporters and banks supporting French energy major TotalEnergies’ $20 billion liquefied natural gas project in northern Mozambique.
Last month POLITICO reported that a Mozambican military unit operating out of TotalEnergies’ gatehouse at the gas site in Cabo Delgado massacred at least 97 civilians.