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Debate between Alan Mak and Craig Mackinlay
Tuesday 2nd April 2019

(5 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Alan Mak Portrait Alan Mak (Havant) (Con)
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9. What steps he is taking to enhance UK soft power overseas.

Craig Mackinlay Portrait Craig Mackinlay (South Thanet) (Con)
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15. What steps he is taking to enhance UK soft power overseas.

Mark Field Portrait The Minister for Asia and the Pacific (Mark Field)
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We regard the UK as a soft power superpower, and this is widely recognised in independent international surveys and reports. [Interruption.] A few more tongue twisters and I will be anyone’s! This is the sort of thing you want to do at 11 in the morning, not 11 o’clock at night. The FCO vigorously continues to support the UK’s soft power through the funding of, among others, Chevening scholarships, the British Council and the BBC World Service.

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