Britain needs its own foreign policy, not America's

Britain needs its own foreign policy, not America's

“Thank you, Mr President, for your leadership.” In July 2003, Tony Blair delivered a speech to the United States Congress. Four months into the invasion of Iraq, the British prime minister travelled to Washington DC to express his gratitude to his “ally” and “friend”, president George W Bush. “What the president is doing in the Middle East is tough, but right,” Blair said, dismissing the warnings of millions of ordinary people who could see the …