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PM uses first foreign trip to rally UN allies to keep up the pressure on Russia

Like Brexit, Boris Johnsons vision for global Britain is an idea not a policy Martin Kettle Defence reviews and foreign policy resets come and go in British politics. Some of their conclusions struggle to survive sustained contact with the real world. Most are remembered only by defence specialists and whichever armed service does well – or badly – out of the reordered spending that is each review’s core purpose. Occasionally, there is a substantial exception, a defence re...

Instead of delivering a strategy, the prime minister’s defence review was an exercise in political opportunism ‘Boris Johnson’s brief Commons speech gave a clear indication of the extremely limited purpose of the exercise, as he sees it. It was a terrible, and terribly cynical, speech.’ Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA ‘Boris Johnson’s brief Commons speech gave a clear indication of the extremely limited purpose of the exercise, as he sees it. It was a terrible, and terr...