Labour’s foreign policy will be realistic about us as a nation, not nostalgic about what we used to be | David Lammy
Our guiding light will be progressive realism and an end to the reckless, gaffe-prone diplomacy of the Tory years
Every time you look at social media, a new international crisis is unfolding. Drones from Iran or one of its proxies hurtling towards Israel. Another Israeli strike kills civilians in Gaza. A Ukrainian city faces a fresh wave of attacks from Putin’s war machine. The revelation of another cyber attack from a hostile state on UK soil. Another threat of a land grab in my ancestral home of Guyana. Another coup in the Sahel. A new flood, wildfire or hurricane – the latest manifestation of the climate emergency that is too often treated as an afterthought.
The world order – which once appeared governed, at least to a large extent, by the rules we helped set up with our allies after the second world war – is now defined by a new form of geopolitical competition. Between the United States and China, over microchips, military might and trade. Between countries defined by the CIA director, William Burns, as the “hedging middle” setting their own agendas in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Between friends and rivals alike over the green transition – on which the future of humanity depends. ,
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