Whether we like it or not, we are more connected than ever before, in a world that is also more dangerous than at any other time in my sixty-eight years.
Ukraine’s fight is our fight. Freedom and democracy are at stake. These are not abstract principles but the principles that underpin the open international order, the rock upon which the world’s – and our – security and prosperity rests.
We need instead to process claims faster and create safe and legal routes for all asylum seekers.
You should not have to risk your life in a small boat. You should be able to apply at a British embassy and arrive on a plane.
It is a hotch-potch of Tony Blair’s creation that is condemned anew with each fresh, monstrous decision. The Home Secretary must act.
The cut to 0.5 per cent represents just one per cent of what the Treasury is borrowing this year.
It is seldom a good sign when Governments decide to tinker with the Whitehall architecture.
A child dies every 20 seconds from a disease they could have been vaccinated against. The Government is determined to meet this challenge.
At present, with the public support of their UK allies, there are few consequences for the Saudi-Emirati-led Coalition when they bomb children.
What Parliament’s Security Committee began – and was frustrated by the Government in doing – judges must now complete.
We remain the only country in Europe to detain people indefinitely for the purposes of immigration enforcement, at large financial and human cost.
We need to see where it is, root it out and thus show the leadership that has made Britain respected around the world.
Today, the Falkland Islands are riding high, with GDP at around £280 million per year and £84,000 per head. The economy transformed by revenues from the fishing industry with a strong likelihood of hydrocarbons turning the islands into the Switzerland of the South Atlantic.