Global politics is taking place in an increasingly “two-pace world”, where formal inter-state negotiations are supplanted and enhanced by networks of cross-national activists, business and other NGOs. In such circumstances, the UK will continue to have an impact only if it rediscovers its “spirit of innovation”, and reaffirms its commitment to freedom and the rule of law.

This was the message Ben Davies heard when he went to see Lord Mark Malloch-Brown give the 17^th annual Mishcon Lecture on the subject of ‘British Foreign Policy in a Changing World’.

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