CUTS: Badenoch speech

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Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch delivers a foreign policy speech in Westminster Report by Chinnianl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00on the apparently proposed handover of the Chavous Islands to Mauritius. More than 6

00:21in 10, 62 percent, said it was important for Britain to stand up for its own national interests

00:27and international justice.

00:42Every few decades, the world changes. The Iron Curtain descending. The fall of the Berlin Wall.

00:50September 11th. The invasion of Ukraine.

00:55Today we must be realistic and accept that we are in another era of change. A reappraisal

01:02of how nation-states interact, how much focus we must place on our defence, and how geopolitics

01:08works.

01:10At the very least, the Pax Americana of over half a century is evolving, potentially even

01:18more.

01:19I believe that Western values of liberalism, those Enlightenment values, need to be fought

01:23for. That real, classical liberalism of free speech, free trade, free enterprise, and a

01:28smaller state that does some things well, like defence, not lots of things badly.

01:34These are the conservative values that I hold, that guide everything that I do. And I believe

01:40the country our children will inherit will be stronger if we reassert them.

01:46For nearly two centuries, since Britain emerged from the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, the

01:51Conservative Party has stood for strong defence.

01:54It needs to investigate and get the evidence for what has or what hasn't happened, and

01:58then the police can make a decision on that.

02:00But we know what is right and what is legal in our country, and giving money to terrorists

02:04is not it.

02:06And I will hand Martin Green from Policy Exchange.

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