We should be proud that our overseas aid budget is helping to strengthen the capacity of journalists working overseas to hold their Governments to account.
In the event, my friends and supporters applauded and embraced me. But there is still work to do to secure universal LGBT acceptance in the UK.
Jeremy Hunt was the best Foreign Secretary of recent times – and his successor’s record gives me hope he will build on that legacy.
Time is not on our side – but under a new Prime Minister, the UK can stand with Hongkongers and uphold our freedom.
We need to redefine our purpose, move forward with our global partners, unite the UK – and defeat Corbynism.
The real risk of all this is that it gets praised – but is then quietly filed away. What needs to happen is a change of Foreign Office culture.
In the absence of counter-arguments, we can’t really be sure what the public thinks about state action on unhealthy lifestyles.
We should make it clear that further attempts to encroach on Hong Kong’s freedoms and rule of law would have consequences for China.
What he detests is less liberalism than democracy, and the obstacle it poses to Russian foreign policy objectives.
The David and Goliath struggle between the Metric Martyrs and EU harmonisation could yet have a happy ending.
If you believe in this idea of conservatism; if you want new faces at the table; if you share these ambitions, then please say so.
There are no certainties – at least, until it’s too late – so the UK should err on the side of caution.
Unbridled worship of the market, ahead of principle, responsibility and loyalty, would be a betrayal of our Party’s history.