Britain must not shrink back from ‘chaotic world’, says Starmer

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Britain must not shrink back from a “chaotic world”, Sir Keir Starmer has said as he underlined his commitment to internationalism.n his annual Guildhall speech on foreign policy, the Prime Minister accused opposition politicians of offering a “corrosive, inward-looking attitude” on international affairs.Taking aim at those who advocate leaving the European Convention on Human Rights or Nato, he said they offered “grievance rather than hope” and “a declinist vision of a lesser Britain”.

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00:00When war has returned to Europe, leaving the most successful military alliance in history

00:07would be catastrophic. Even to contemplate it is a sign of deep unseriousness in gravely serious

00:17times. But that's where this corrosive, inward-looking attitude leads. It offers grievance

00:26rather than hope, a declinist vision of a lesser Britain, not a great Britain.

00:35Moreover, it is a fatal misreading of the moment, ducking the fundamental challenge posed

00:44by a chaotic world. A world which is more dangerous and unstable than at any point for

00:52a generation where international events reach directly into our lives, whether we like it

00:59or not.

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