Iceland’s foreign minister, Bjarni Benediktsson, is to be the country’s new prime minister, after Katrin Jakobsdóttir announced her resignation last week to seek election as president. Benediktsson, who had served as finance minister in Jakobsdóttir previous cabinet, announced the switch himself on Tuesday at a press conference broadcast on Icelandic television. A member of the conservative Independence Party, Benediktsson served as prime minister between January and November 2017, when his government was hit by a scandal after his father came out in favour of deleting the criminal record of a…