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At last, we have a foreign secretary who’s not shy to make a stand

11 July 2020

9:00 AM

11 July 2020

9:00 AM

It is hardly a profound observation to say that the government has not functioned as well as it might have done for the past few months. Yet there is one important exception to the general picture of confused and counterproductive activity. Britain, for the first time in years, is developing a logical and — to use the words of Robin Cook — an ethical foreign policy.

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