A Year of Progressive Realism - British Foreign Policy Group

A Year of Progressive Realism - British Foreign Policy Group

It has been a year since the UK’s Labour Government came to power. Before the General Election, the now-Foreign Secretary, David Lammy MP, outlined his vision for UK foreign policy, a doctrine he called ‘progressive realism’.1 In a nutshell, this means a foreign policy that tries to achieve progressive ends – fighting climate change, defending democracy and human rights, modernising development – while recognising, as the Foreign Secretary puts …