Here’s your starter for ten in our Saturday slot where we throw up an idea or thought for debate: In all the recent controversy surrounding David Cameron’s recent foreign policy pronouncements some of the substance has perhaps been lost: here was the leader of a major European country unequivocally urging that Turkey be admitted as
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 7th Aug 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
There will be red faces in Number 10 tonight after the latest foreign policy gaffe from David Cameron. Speaking today at his one of his PM Direct events, the Conservative leader stuck up for Turkey’s application to join the EU, stating it would be able to help Europe address a number of issues: I think
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 5th Aug 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
David Cameron has been accused of making a wide number of foreign policy gaffes, though these fall into different categories. I think there is often a plausible defence of (somewhat inconvenient) truth-telling, even if Cameron’s recent comments about Pakistan appeared off-the-cuff rather than a deliberate strategy of increased public pressure. Beyond that, Cameron seems (laudably)
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LiberalConspiracy on 5th Aug 2010 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
Tory leader David Cameron has launched a thinly-veiled attack on US neo-conservative foreign policy in a speech in Pakistan.
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PoliticsCoUk on 3rd Sep 2008 (via politics.co.uk)
Speaking in Islamabad, David Cameron will today outline five steps for dealing with modern foreign policy threats. In his speech, he also discusses Pakistan and Russia at length. A liberal conservative foreign policy: “My starting point is the philosophy that...
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ConservativeHome on 3rd Sep 2008 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
David Cameron makes a speech on foreign policy at the Lord mayor's banquet.
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BBCPolitics on 14th Nov 2011 (via bbc.co.uk)
David Miliband MP, Labour's Foreign Secretary, has responded to reports that Vaclav Klaus has signed the Lisbon Treaty and commented on David Cameron's failure to clarify his policy on the treaty. David Miliband told Labour Matters: "So much for David Cameron's cast iron guarantee to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty." "As British Foreign Secretary, I would welcome Mr Cameron...
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LabourMatters on 3rd Nov 2009 (via labourmatters.com)
David Cameron promises to transform British foreign policy so that it is focused primarily on promoting UK businesses abroad.
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BBCPolitics on 22nd Jul 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
David Cameron is to argue strongly for Turkey's membership of the European Union, saying he is "angry" at the slow pace of negotiations.
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BBCPolitics on 27th Jul 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
On a visit to Turkey today, David Cameron is due to say: “When I think about what Turkey has done to defend Europe as a Nato ally, and what Turkey is doing today in Afghanistan, alongside our European allies, it makes me angry that your progress towards EU membership can be frustrated in the way it has been.
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OpenEurope on 27th Jul 2010 (via openeurope.org.uk)