The UK’s grand foreign policy strategy is more deeply embedded and longer lasting than any prime ministerial term.
- Tutor of International Relations, University of Sussex
Foreign policy under Keir Starmer underlines the historical limits of idealism in the British approach to matters abroad.
The approach tells us much about how Keir Starmer’s administration sees the UK’s place in the world in an unsettled era.
Starmer could use Britain’s island identity to its advantage and turn this time of crisis into an opportunity for Britain.
Migration and trade are two areas where Britain could have a leadership role in Europe.
Geographical happenstance became a matter of national identity in imperial times and is now a handy rhetorical device for Brexit enthusiasts.
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