What is the point of British foreign policy?

Speaking at a panel debate this evening as part of the annual Battle of Ideas festival.  With Charlie Edwards (Demos), Ian Kearns (IPPR) and Bruno Waterfield (Daily Telegraph) I will be debating the nature and impact of contemporary British foreign policy and the new national security strategy, including:

•  Has David Miliband managed to breathe new life into New Labour’s ethical foreign policy, after the Iraqi debacle, through his staunch defense of Georgia?
  
• Can ethically orientated intervention in support of human rights and struggles for democracy elsewhere in the world provide Britain with a coherent moral sense of itself - domestically or internationally?
  
• How do we define the national interest today, and is Britain’s foreign policy a coherent expression of it?
  

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