Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch delivers a foreign policy speech in Westminster Report by Chinnianl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00on the apparently proposed handover of the Chavous Islands to Mauritius. More than 6
00:21in 10, 62 percent, said it was important for Britain to stand up for its own national interests
00:27and international justice.
00:42Every few decades, the world changes. The Iron Curtain descending. The fall of the Berlin Wall.
00:50September 11th. The invasion of Ukraine.
00:55Today we must be realistic and accept that we are in another era of change. A reappraisal
01:02of how nation-states interact, how much focus we must place on our defence, and how geopolitics
01:08works.
01:10At the very least, the Pax Americana of over half a century is evolving, potentially even
01:18more.
01:19I believe that Western values of liberalism, those Enlightenment values, need to be fought
01:23for. That real, classical liberalism of free speech, free trade, free enterprise, and a
01:28smaller state that does some things well, like defence, not lots of things badly.
01:34These are the conservative values that I hold, that guide everything that I do. And I believe
01:40the country our children will inherit will be stronger if we reassert them.
01:46For nearly two centuries, since Britain emerged from the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, the
01:51Conservative Party has stood for strong defence.
01:54It needs to investigate and get the evidence for what has or what hasn't happened, and
01:58then the police can make a decision on that.
02:00But we know what is right and what is legal in our country, and giving money to terrorists
02:04is not it.
02:06And I will hand Martin Green from Policy Exchange.