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  • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
    Tory backbenchers attack cuts to Yemen aid funding

    UK government defends reduction in cash as own MPs decry ‘strategic mistake with deadly consequences’

  • Sunday, 21 February, 2021
    Xinjiang
    UK to call for UN probe of Uighur camps in China’s Xinjiang province

    Violations happening on ‘industrial scale’, foreign secretary will tell human rights council

  • Saturday, 20 February, 2021
    UK universities
    UK academics struggle with stricter security on China partnerships

    Universities have been accused of generating research that may benefit Beijing’s military

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    Robert Zoellick
    How Joe Biden can help Britain modernise its role in the world

    London’s course looks uncertain, but it offers opportunities to Washington

  • Monday, 8 February, 2021
    Gideon Rachman
    Why the Anglosphere sees eye to eye on China

    A group of English-speaking nations is taking a more confrontational approach to Beijing

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Britain Alone: the Path from Suez to Brexit, by Philip Stephens

    The FT journalist brings much-needed substance to the overly emotional debate over the UK’s global role post-empire

  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
    China Global Television Network
    China’s state broadcaster stripped of licence to broadcast in UK

    Media watchdog finds Chinese Communist party has editorial control over CGTN network

  • Thursday, 28 January, 2021
    Brexit
    Britain seeks end to row with EU over diplomatic status of London envoy

    Brussels postpones meeting with new UK ambassador because of spat

  • Thursday, 28 January, 2021
    Philip Stephens
    The UK is partner and prisoner in US special relationship

    Falling further into the arms of Washington does not amount to a post-Brexit foreign policy

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  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    UK stands firm in row over EU envoy’s diplomatic status

    Brussels says their man in London is only one not to have same standing as national representatives

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Johnson plays down Biden removal of Churchill bust as he seeks to build relations

    Downing St says ‘it is up to the president’ to decorate Oval Office as he wishes

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    May attacks Johnson for moral failure and eroding Britain’s global standing

    Former PM criticises her successor for threat to Brexit withdrawal pact and cutting overseas aid

  • Sunday, 17 January, 2021
    UK trade
    Tory rebels seek to block trade deal with China over Uighurs

    MPs join forces with opposition in support of amendment upholding human rights

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    News in-depth
    Boris Johnson on back foot as UK tries to reset relationship with US

    PM hopes shared international policy interests will overcome Biden’s unfavourable initial impressions

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Life & Arts
    From Suez to Brexit and back again: Britain’s long search for a role

    Britain’s departure from the EU reopens a difficult debate over its place in the world

  • Monday, 4 January, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Finding a new role for the UK in the world

    ‘Global Britain’ must rethink how it can best safeguard its interests

  • Monday, 4 January, 2021
    News in-depthUK politics & policy
    Johnson prepares ‘global Britain’ relaunch in wake of Brexit

    PM wants to use G7 and UN climate summit to burnish his reputation on world stage

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    UK to send troops to Mali peacekeeping operation

    Three-year deployment to UN mission seen as post-Brexit solidarity with French forces

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    Philip Stephens
    Nostalgia is no substitute for a post-Brexit foreign policy

    The UK has plenty to contribute to global security but first it must be comfortable in the present

  • Sunday, 22 November, 2020
    UK government spending
    Business groups call on Johnson to rethink overseas aid cuts

    Sunak expected to announce temporary reduction to 0.5% of GDP in spending review

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    UK public finances
    Downing St refusal to guarantee UK aid budget prompts backbench ire

    Temporary cut seen as possible way to help fill hole in the public finances

  • Thursday, 12 November, 2020
    Philip Stephens
    The ‘special relationship’ has run out of time

    Joe Biden is unlikely to bear a grudge against Boris Johnson, but the UK is losing its relevance

  • Wednesday, 11 November, 2020
    Brexit
    Biden warns Johnson not to let Brexit upend NI peace process

    US president-elect includes British PM among first world leaders to be contacted

  • Saturday, 7 November, 2020
    News in-depth
    Boris Johnson to stress common policy interests with Joe Biden

    Allies of prime minister insist he is no ‘mini-Trump’ as UK seeks to preserve special relationship

  • Thursday, 5 November, 2020
    UK politics & policy
    Dominic Raab self-isolating after exposure to coronavirus

    UK foreign secretary working from home with US election unclear and travel restrictions on Sweden and Germany

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