The Integrated Review of UK Foreign Policy: 10 Key Insights
The BFPG's Director, Sophia Gaston, sets out 10 key insights from the HMG Integrated Review of the UK's Defence, Security, Development and Foreign Policy....
16 March, 2021
Author: Sophia Gaston
Global Britain and Levelling Up are Natural Bedfellows
Levelling Up and Global Britain were born from the same seismic event and, after a period of false competition, are naturally coming back together as the natural bedfellows they are. ...
14 March, 2021
Five Things We Know: Public Opinion on Foreign Aid
Public opinion on foreign aid continues to be a hugely sensitive, and poorly understood, issue....
02 March, 2021
2021 Annual Survey of UK Public Opinion on Foreign Policy and Global Britain
The BFPG's major new report, the 2021 Annual Survey of UK Public Opinion on Foreign Policy and Global Britain, finds that foreign policy attitudes are evolving dynamically in the aftermath of Britain’s departure from the European Union and in the wake of the global coronavirus...
16 February, 2021
The UK Foreign Secretary’s Evidence to the International Development Committee: 10 Things We Learned
The UK's evolving strategy towards China since 2014 must be examined in the context of its shifting political realities....
26 January, 2021
Coming Together & Pulling Apart – the Geopolitics of Covid-19
A new report from the BFPG, authored by the BFPG's Director Sophia Gaston with researcher Evie Aspinall, sets out the ways in which the coronavirus pandemic has reshaped geopolitical realities....
07 December, 2020
What HMG’s evolving China position reveals about shifting UK political realities
The UK's evolving strategy towards China since 2014 must be examined in the context of its shifting political realities....
01 December, 2020
Moving On: The UK and the EU Must Look to the Future
The BFPG's Director Sophia Gaston argues that the UK and the EU need to move on from the fractious nature of the Brexit negotiations and find a productive new relationship to tackle shared challenges....
16 November, 2020
New FCDO Permanent Under-Secretary gives evidence on the UK’s foreign policy priorities
On 10 November 2010, Sir Philip Barton KCMG OBE, Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and Head of the Diplomatic Service, gave his first evidence session to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee (FASC). He was joined by Juliet Chua, Director General,...
11 November, 2020
What Joe Biden’s victory means for the UK & Global Britain
1. Biden’s ‘transatlantic project’ is not about the special relationship, but the UK will be a part of it. Biden’s administration has made clear that restoring the US-EU relationship, and relations between Washington and key EU nations, such as France and Germany, will be one of...
08 November, 2020