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Hello and welcome to the special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots. I'm James Heel and I'm delighted to be joined today by the former Chancellor and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who's got a new book out, Can We Be Great Again, Why Dangerous World Needs Britain?

Jeremy, thanks for coming to today.

Thank you, James. Pleasure.

Why this book and why now?

Because I think we are facing a chronic lack of self-confidence as a country.

We've had a miserable period since the financial crisis,

and people have started to lose confidence in ourselves. And the argument in the book is that this is actually overstated. When I was Foreign Secretary, I sat in this incredibly grand

office by far the nicest office in Whitehall. And you ask yourself, is this an imperial delusion? And we obviously don't

have an empire now. But I wanted to write this book to find out objectively whether we are a

great country, by which I mean, not Donald Trump's definition, but whether we're a country

that can shape the world as well as be shaped by it. And in the book, I took the seven or eight biggest problems the world faces.

And, you know, whether it's the future of democracy or security in Europe or climate change or the migration crisis in every single one, the experts, the independent experts say that out of 193 countries in the United Nations,

the UK is easily one of the top 10 most influential and often the top five.

And my argument is really, it's not a jingoistic argument.

It is that, and I would say the same thing to an audience of French or Germans or Americans, I'd say that it's a very, very

dangerous world right now, the most dangerous it's been in my adult lifetime. And countries with

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