Those who want to project force in the Pacific must explain how it would be consistent with maintaining our strength at home and nearer abroad.
The row over the Northern Ireland Protocol must not be allowed to poison co-operation with our continental partners on defence against Russia.
We are the party of mobility and enterprise. But we are also the party of community and belonging. What is it to be – roots or wings?
If Peter Sellers were still around, he could play the President to perfection, as a politician who is all at once cunning, witty, naive and triumphant.
We have a tendency to idolise our European counterparts on Covid strategy. But we should think about our own legacy.
A section of the commentariat was so unbalanced by the referendum result that it now automatically sides with the EU.
Politicians and civil servants need to relearn that the route to lower taxes lies in sustained economic growth and discipline on public expenditure.
Ministers must grasp that this new one will be even more disposed to conduct its foreign policy through the EU.
Anti-corruption and cementing new treaties should take precedence over softer fashionable favourites.
“We stand shoulder to shoulder with France in so many important ways”, the Prime Minister adds.
The AUKUS alliance will merely push away France, which has been one of the most sanguine countries to oppose China’s influence.
Putin’s Russia is closer to home – remember the Salisbury attack – and Islamist extremism is already here.
The international community must set out consequences for Beijing’s flagrant breaches of international treaties.