Furthermore, increasing global tensions make improving our defence capabilities essential.
They can seem remote from the everyday priorities of people here at home. But at its heart, trade is a powerful way to deliver what people really care about.
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Debate on the Agriculture Bill gives them the chance to call for more effective measures than those which independent assessments find wanting.
In the UK, our retirement communities sector provides about a tenth of the capacity per head as that in New Zealand and Australia.
The crux of the trade negotiations is to what degree we’re prepared to do this – in return for a high-quality agreement on trade in services, data and investment.
O’Toole is a strong supporter of CANZUK, the projected alliance of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
I expect the UK to emerge from this economic and health shakeup with permanent major changes of behaviour.
Downing Street’s soft power alliance to help constrain China would support and project common values.
Australia’s former Prime Minister knows all about trade deals – and can supply insights both from his experience and an international contact book.
Britain, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand: an alliance of modern, diverse, liberal, English-speaking democracies united by common cause.
We need to separate the Nightingales from other hospitals, build more of them – and use them as a means of isolating the infected.