Opinion piece by Tom Tugendhat in a Middle East journal. Pretty close to the bone for a politician who is the Chair of the HoC Foreign Affairs Committee.
It is not the only mention I have seen if this being a “Suez moment” either. It would seem the UK policy of being an obedient junior partner* to US Middle East policy may have reached an end and that McMillan’s declaration that, “We would rather be wrong together than right separately”.
Successive UK governments delivered on that promise over the years up Blair and Cameron over Afghanistan and Iraq, till Cameron finally failed to win support from the HoC over support requested by the USA concerning Syria. I cannot foresee any future PM risking the political capital to do so again.
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https://nottingham-repository.worktr...putFile/779777
https://www.thenationalnews.com/opin...s-suez-moment/
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