British Armed Forces: Global Britain Debate

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Arrangement of Business
Thursday 21st January 2021

(3 years, 10 months ago)

Grand Committee
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My Lords, in my one minute, I make an impassioned plea for Britain to be less global in strutting its military might across the world. We already have a military presence on 145 sites in 45 countries. If other members of our so-called Security Council were to follow our example, our fragile world would become even more dangerously unstable. Does the Minister agree with the words of former Prime Minister Theresa May that we should stop acting as the world’s policeman?

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