The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, “one of the most critical routes for global trade” according to the International Maritime Organisation.
Our policy needs to be joined up, realistic and deliverable. The era of wishful thinking, of hoping that Iran will change, must be confined to history.
Voters believe four of the Government’s five key pledges are more likely to happen under Labour than the Conservatives. Meanwhile, 2019 Tory voters prioritise spending on public services over tax cuts,
Its case is an attempt to divide the West in the guise of post-colonial ideology, but in the interests of actual imperialists in Moscow and Beijing.
No decent person can support piracy or missile attacks on peaceful merchant vessels. Someone has to defend the global order. Not for the first time, that someone is the Anglo-American alliance.
Labour’s leader adds that “while we back the action… these strikes still do bring risk, we must avoid escalation across the Middle East”.
The Prime Minister says the US and UK air strikes on Houthi targets were a “necessary and proportionate response to a direct threat to UK vessels”.
Sir Keir will have to work hard to keep his party on the right side of the line. Which will require withdrawing the whip from any Labour MPs who support attacks on our troops.
“We are prepared to follow our words and warnings with actions”, Cameron tells Kuenssberg.
This week, the Office for National Statistics informed us that the economy grew by 0.3 per cent in November. Not only was that above the 0.2 per cent expansion expected by analysts, but it was a recovery from a 0.3 per cent contraction the previous month.
Russia’s invasion represented the first open attack on an already-fraying rules-based system. The post-Cold War status quo, about which we became complacent, is gone. Everything has changed.
Although support for Netanyahu and his ministers, already unpopular before the war, has dwindled since its start, this has not impacted the nation’s resolve.
A better future is always possible. But it cannot not involve an impoverished Britain pleading for a cut of hydrocarbons from a regime which cares nothing for its own citizens, never mind ours.
Anti-corruption and cementing new treaties should take precedence over softer fashionable favourites.
It is imperative to grasp the group’s objectives, doctrines, and expansion tactics. Employing a combination of both soft and hard power measures is essential, targeting not only Hezbollah but also its allies and associates globally.