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Alastair and Rory are joined by Michel Barnier, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, three years on from Britain's exit from the European Union.Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian ‘Of course it’s morally wrong to take the view that anyone making their way across the Channel is illegal’ … David Lammy. Stewart effectively threw himself upon the generosity of impoverished communities during his solo walk across remote, mountainous regions in the depths of winter.
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Lammy said they would be stressing the UK’s solidarity with Ukraine amid signs of waning public support in the US for the war against Russia. Tony Blair famously courted the Democrats, and in April 1996, more than a year before his first general election victory, was invited by President Bill Clinton to take part in a joint press conference at the White House. He was taking care of her and others scarpered, and he was questioned as if he might be the perpetrator when he was only trying to help,” he says.
I can’t tell you how dangerous and populist – but in the end thin and not in our national interests – this narrative is.
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It is based on an offer from the EU that Boris Johnson rejected during Brexit negotiations, he says, but Russian aggression and the nascent power struggle between the US and China now make the case for Britain to be closer to its EU allies. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s data suggests the collapse in export figures will result in Britain’s biggest trade deficit since the 1940s, with the gap between imports and exports reaching more than 6 per cent of GDP. When he was in frontline politics – first as an MP, then as a minister for the environment, international development, Africa and prisons before becoming secretary of state for international development – Stewart represented a now defunct tribe of centrist Tories. Whether they're sports stars, thought-leaders, presidents or internationally-recognised religious figures, Alastair and Rory lift the lid on the motivation, philosophy and secrets behind their career.
In a new pamphlet for the Fabian Society, he proposes a post-Brexit rebuilding of alliances with Europe and the US, countering what he sees as an emerging threat from autocratic regimes. He is more forthcoming on the European convention on human rights, another foundational treaty from which some Tory MPs want to withdraw, in pursuit of their ambition to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.
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As an MP, Stewart voted in favour of a stricter asylum system, raising tuition fees, introducing the bedroom tax and cutting welfare benefits.So there’s no doubt about it, these are dangerous times, which is why dialogue — the need for China to be able to answer the phone and to avoid escalation — I think I leave concerned about that. I think most people will find it unbelievable that the United Kingdom under Theresa May was close to China and the Chinese Communist party effectively controlling our nuclear industry. I’d had so many death threats, and this was in the [time of] the murder of [the MP] Jo Cox …” he tails off.
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