Egypt is a sovereign nation.
From William Hague
People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.
I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.
We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.
You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.
Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.
As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.
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