UK should carry out one key pivot to spice up our safety and prosperity | Express Comment | Comment | EUROtoday

Last week we recognised Commonwealth Day, and Conservative Party MPs have joined the relaunch of the Conservative Commonwealth Group as patrons, providing their management to an organisation that goals to fill a palpable void in our political framework.

The group, beforehand the Conservative Friends of the Commonwealth, has realigned and relaunched to adapt to the altering occasions and wishes of our Conservative Party and the UK.

Recent geopolitical occasions have demonstrated that worldwide energy frameworks are shifting, and within the gentle of current weeks, there’s a urgent want for the UK to reassert its central function on the worldwide stage.

As we face an more and more unsure and risky phrase, we should embrace a worldwide outlook that helps and champions the Commonwealth, our household of 56 unbiased nations, with a inhabitants of two.7 billion and a GDP of over $13.1 trillion and a number of the fastest-growing economies on this planet.

Global Britain is inside attain, and we are able to seize the infinite prospects opened by the Commonwealth. From safety and financial resilience to enhancing worldwide commerce, the Commonwealth is an present framework that spans continents, political methods, and financial fashions, certain by a shared tradition.

The launch of the CCG demonstrates a strategic pivot that the Conservative Party should take in the direction of Global Britain: constructing on the community of like-minded nations.

The CCG will proceed to advertise and reinforce the UK’s safety via shared commitments and partnerships on a spread of subjects corresponding to intelligence, coordinated defence methods, and mutual help amongst Commonwealth companions, together with people who be a part of us in making up four-fifths of the Five Eyes community.

By championing conventional Conservative values, the rule of legislation, particular person freedoms, and restricted authorities, the CCG initiative goals to function a framework for partnerships between centre-right actions throughout the Commonwealth, serving to them to embrace and strengthen their home standing.

The Commonwealth offers us an opportunity to be taught as a celebration from our friends throughout the globe.

The backing of Jeremy Hunt who served as Foreign Secretary, Alicia Kearns, a former Foreign Affairs Select Committee Chair, Sir Oliver Dowden, the previous Deputy Prime Minister, and plenty of others throughout each Houses and in our devolved administrations reinforces the group’s credibility and imaginative and prescient.

The group envisions a future the place the UK, supported by a various coalition of Commonwealth nations, takes centre stage in crafting forward-thinking overseas coverage.