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Britain’s foreign policy is now out of step with the global majority
Britain is ramping up military spending while the global South is instead focusing on co-operation through entities like the Brics coalition — it is clear which approach is paying dividends, warns FIONA EDWARDS
From left, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China's President Xi Jinping, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pose for a BRICS group photo during the 2023

SIGNIFICANT shifts are taking place in international relations that underscore how deeply unpopular and isolated Britain’s foreign policy agenda has become.

It is one that focuses on war and maintaining a world order led by the US that has enriched a small minority at the expense of the majority of humanity.  

The British government has positioned itself as the US’s most loyal and belligerent ally. In the past two years Britain has been hitting the international headlines, not for pursuing any diplomatic efforts to achieve peace in Ukraine, but for its leading role in escalating international conflict both against Russia and China at the same time.

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