The Foreign Secretary helped to author this important legislation. If Britain is to continue to take a robust stance against Beijing, he must now use it,
We could give in to the leftist, isolationist Little England vision of a reclusive UK. Alternatively, we could make Global Britain a reality.
Sunni Arab leaders now recognise that Iran’s aggression represents an existential threat to more than just the Jewish state.
If Putin hoped that Brexit would detach us from our alliances, there’s no evidence of that happening so far, and much to the contrary.
As a general set of principles for the UK global aims, we would do well to turn for inspiration and leadership to Churchill and Roosevelt’s Atlantic Charter.
There are special gains in luxury cars, migration and services – as Australia looks away from the Pacific and we stride in into the wider world.
They deserve more attention in our developing foreign and security policy – since the Middle East matters massively to global peace and prosperity.
We need a special regime: a UK plc with a government-owned ‘golden share’, giving the Government special powers.
The international community must wake up to the threat posed by a destabilised Libya on the shores of the Mediterranean.
Britain is said to be keen to build such a coalition to include the existing G7 members, alongside India, South Korea and Australia.
There is further to go – but we can be proud of what the Foreign Secretary has already delivered.
Given the EU’s risk levels, its lack of investment in NATO and its poor relations with its neighbours, it is hardly an attractive partner; more of a liability.
It is our third largest market – we must work with it if we are to help resolve global problems from the environment to nuclear proliferation.
I could reveal how it was made available to me, but I’d have to shoot you were I to tell you.
His position has given him the freedom to speak openly and with authority where those holding government portfolios must tread lightly.