Alexander Downer: A trade deal with Australia is just the first step. It could open the door for Britain to the Asia-Pacific trading club

If Britain cannot do a trade deal with a country with which it shares a common language, history, and standards, then who can it do a deal with?

Alexander Downer: A truth runs through this Integrated Review – that foreign policy can no longer exist in isolation.

What it puts forward is an argument that prosperity at home is more than ever the result of how Britain deals with the world.

Alexander Downer: A forward-thinking UK should shift the weight of its strategic policy towards the Indo-Pacific region

Home to some of the fastest-growing economies of the 21st century, it has never been more urgent to build new trading relationships there.