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Liz Truss will push for Mexico to back the UK joining a major international trade pact today as she visits the country.
The new Foreign Secretary is continuing her travels after attending the UN General Assembly in New York alongside Boris Johnson.
She will be hoping for better news in Mexico City, after Joe Biden poured cold water on the UK's hopes of a quick trade deal with the US.
Briefing from senior government figures over a fallback option of joining the US-Mexico-Canada trade area was also humiliatingly derided by experts.
Instead Ms Truss is expected to use her latest trip to focus on the snappily-named Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
She will also discuss plans to improve the existing bilateral deal between the UK and Mexico, which was rolled over after Brexit.
New Foreign Secretary Liz Truss (pictured boarding the RAF Voyager plane earlier this week) is continuing her travels after attending the UN General Assembly in New York alongside Boris Johnson
Ms Truss will be hoping for better news in Mexico City, after Joe Biden (pictured in the Oval Office with Boris Johnson) poured cold water on the UK's hopes of a quick trade deal with the US
The CPTPP is a free trade agreement
