Boris's mission is to keep us safe and save the Union, says STEPHEN POLLARD
The key to our foreign policy, Mr Johnson stressed, will be international cooperation. This will be on a far wider plane than simply the EU, as used to be the foundation of our policy. Our global role, with a seat on the UN Security Council, gives us a key position in working on planning for future pandemic risks, and our chairmanship of the COP26 climate negotiations in Glasgow this November gives a focus on global warming. As a member of NATO we embody the transatlantic alliance – or what he called “the Euro-Atlantic area”. As members of the EU, our foreign policy was largely dictated...