We need to use this election as citizens to chart a bold path for the UK through a volatile world. This means discussing in practical terms about what we, as British citizens, need from the rest of the world, what we have to offer in...
The British Foreign Policy Group (BFPG) is a new organisation with the aim of supporting greater public understanding of the UK’s foreign policy choices. Its flagship report: ‘Why a British Foreign Policy Group’, outlines the key reasons why the UK needs an independent not for...
Tom Cargill, Executive Director, introduces the BFPG, highlighting its work, aims and objectives, as well as why the UK needs the British Foreign Policy Group....
The Prime Minister’s Brexit speech has inevitably attracted a huge amount of attention to the broad terms of the UK’s negotiating position with the EU 27. Somewhat less attention has been given to the broader vision for the UK post-Brexit -a ‘Global Britain’ – ‘a...
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson spoke on Friday morning in the first of a series of foreign policy speeches he intends to make to lay out his vision for ‘Global Britain’ – a UK that is outward looking, assertive and engaged internationally and that ‘refuses to...
It is telling that precious little news coverage of Theresa May’s foreign policy speech at the Mansion House on Monday referred to her central theme. The Prime Minister spoke about her support for globalisation, but the need to humanise it in a manner which many...
The vote to leave the European Union has understandably caused deep emotive reactions, and many of the initiatives, interventions and ideas promoted amongst prominent supporters on both sides demonstrate this, being calls to either find ways of maintaining as many links with the EU as...
The leaking of the US Democratic Party’s internal emails, just ahead of the Democratic Party Convention, is almost certainly an attempt by Russian state backed interests to undermine America’s global position...