Boris Johnson today took his friend and Australian counterpart Julie Bishop out for a jog in matching his and hers t-shirts.
The two ministers both braved the drizzle to go for an early morning run around the park this morning.
And they both sported similar save the pangolin t-shirts – which raise awareness about the endangered animal which is hunted and used in Chinese medicine.
The little-known mammal is the most trafficked mammal in the world and is now teetering on the edge of extinction.
The two foreign ministers are good friends and Ms Bishop was last year photographed helping Mr Johnson straighten his tie as the pair met in London.
Ms Bishop yesterday gave Brexit Britain a boost by saying that Australia is ‘very keen’ to do a free trade deal with the UK after we quit the Brussels bloc.
Boris Johnson today took his friend and Australian counterpart Julie Bishop out for a jog in matching his and hers t-shirt (pictured today)
The two ministers both braved the drizzle to go for an early morning run around the park this morning – an inspected their matching save the pangolin t-shirts
The two ministers both wore the tops to raise awareness about the endangers pangolin, which is the most trafficked mammal in the world
She said they would be open to the UK joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership – the trade deal between Australia, which is nearly 9,500 miles away, Canada, Malaysia and other countries.
But she warned that it would only be possible if the UK left the customs union – the system of tariffs put on goods and services as they cross over borders.
She said: ‘Australia is very keen to pursue a free trade agreement with the United Kingdom.
‘I think that would be precluded if the United Kingdom were to rejoin the customs union.’
Leaving the customs union would leave Britain free to pursue its own bilateral trade deals.
But the EU has said that would make border checks between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic inevitable – a major obstacle in Brexit talks.
The two foreign ministers are good friends and Ms Bishop was last year photographed helping Mr Johnson straighten his tie as the pair met in London.
It was world pangolin day on Saturday and Mr Johnson used it to write an article in a national newspaper calling for greater efforts to track down on hunting and smuggling the mammal.
He wrote: ‘As we get older we human beings are capable of all manner of self-deception. We go under the knife in the hope of looking younger. We take pills and potions of dubious efficacity.
‘But in the annals of human folly there is surely nothing more delusional than the belief still prevalent in large parts of Asia that a man can somehow rectify his waning virility by grinding and eating the scales of a pangolin.
‘And yet that is what they do. The tragedy is that all eight species of pangolin are now endangered, two of them critically so.
‘We are losing them to poachers at a rate of 100,000 a year. They are smuggled, butchered and cooked – all for the sake of their mythical medicinal qualities.’