Jeremy Hunt writes in Opinions: 'Britain has been shaping the world for centuries. That won’t change with Brexit.'
By Jeremy Hunt March 28 at 6:45 PM Jeremy Hunt is Britain’s secretary of state for foreign and Commonwealth affairs.The 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns was perhaps the most gifted wordsmith of his age. Every foreign minister should ponder one of his lines: “Oh, would some Power give us the gift / To see ourselves as others see us!”
True, our Parliament can be exasperating. But in a democracy, that is also its job. The mother of parliaments is proud, fiercely independent and sovereign. If the British government must fight for every vote on something as crucial as our country’s place in Europe, that is as it should be. If we lose sometimes, that, too, is democracy. For all the pressure it puts on me personally, I take pride in answering to a Parliament that is impossible to suborn.
We have the fifth-largest economy in the world, the No. 1 financial center in our hemisphere and the second-largest military budget in NATO. And we do more for European security than any of our neighbors. Right now, British soldiers make up the single largest contingent of NATO’s deployment in Poland and the Baltic states.
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