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What Ed Miliband’s appointment does and doesn’t mean for the UK’s foreign policy

The UK’s grand foreign policy strategy is more deeply embedded and longer lasting than any prime ministerial term.

21.07.2026 10

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Nick Whittaker

Starmer’s response to Trump’s Greenland outburst shows good old British pragmatism only goes so far

Foreign policy under Keir Starmer underlines the historical limits of idealism in the British approach to matters abroad.

23.01.2026 30

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Nick Whittaker

What the UK’s ‘Nato-first ’ defence approach tells us about Britain’s place in a volatile world

The approach tells us much about how Keir Starmer’s administration sees the UK’s place in the world in an unsettled era.

06.06.2025 20

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Nick Whittaker