Extract from Lords debate on Reconciliation: Role of British Foreign, Defence and International Development Policy - Dec 14
Saturday, 15 December 2018 10:41
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Lord Balfe (Con):...We could possibly learn a bit by adjusting our
foreign policy to be a bit more like that of Norway and Canada,
because one of the points that I would make to the noble Lords who
have spoken, particularly the noble Lord, Lord Campbell, is that
the illusion that we have much in the way of independent hard power
is exactly that: an illusion. Since we joined the EU, our defence
forces have moved from a size that could recapture
the Falklands to one where we would be...Request free trial
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