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Charles Grant, director of the Center for European Reform.

Now, James Hill and Charles Grant, director of the Center for European Reform.

Now, James, today David Cameron had his first set-piece policy speech and actually

is one of two that he's doing today because later on he's going to imagine

how so as foreign secretary what's the content of the speech?

Yeah so David Cameron of course pointed back in November, six months on today was the first time he gave a big speech outside parliament and really just setting out his agenda as foreign secretary and talking also given he's quite unusual foreign

secretary about the journeys he's beyond because of course he was

central to British policymaking from 2010 to 2016 so today's speech I think

was a kind of attempt to fuse together his previous positions on

foreign policy with what sort of evolved in that time so for instance there was a lot

talking about Russian aggression you know given the 2022 war and since then but also

there was a bit talking about women's rights, for instance, of

female genital mutilation, which was very much a focus of William Haigstin as foreign secretary

when Cameron was Prime Minister when he was peering alongside Angina Jolie, for instance.

And so I think that it was an attempt to kind of bridge that gap and really what he was talking about was it was a call for 2.5% spending of GDP on defense from all the NATO countries urging NATO to say it's not just good enough to be 2% it needs to be 2.5% in line with the defense

announcement that Grant Shaps made last week. So I think it was an attempt really to kind of focus minds ahead of July

because of course July is the last big NATO summit.

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