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#GlobalBritain. 20 policy ideas from our report Global Britain: A 21st Century Vision:
1/20 The UK should base its global strategy on three Global Campaigns:
1. Freedom for Trade
2. Freedom from oppression
3. Freedom of Thought
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2/20 Britain should establish a National Strategy Council to develop a global grand strategy and drive cross-government integration. This new national Strategy Council should evolve out of the existing National Security Council.
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3/20 Every decade, the new national Strategy Council should lead a National Global Strategy Review. This should be needs-driven, not cost-driven, and encompass future Strategic defence and Security Reviews.
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4/20 The government should conduct an Overseas Spending audit to ascertain its total spending on global engagement.
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5/20 To support integrated working across departments to deliver a global strategy, DfID and DIT should be amalgamated into the FCO as a new agency.
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6/20 Integration should take place at all levels. At embassy and regional level, integrated working through JETs should be the institutionalised norm.
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7/20 UK ambassadors and High Commissioners should have line management of all staff, regardless of department, and be responsible for developing integrated plans with departmental and agency stakeholders.
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8/20 Within teams, there should be a single legal chain to speed decision-making, to prevent operations moving at the pace of the most risk averse government lawyers.
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9/20 A common set of pay and conditions should be implemented for overseas posts to prevent diplomats and civil servants doing similar jobs for different rates of pay.
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10/20 The FCO should establish a Diaspora Global Advisory Council to empower diaspora communities in the UK to support and deepen Britain’s relationships with nations throughout the world.
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11/20 The BBC World Service should be mandated by the FCO to become the global broadcast of integrity.
It should be funded primarily from the “international development” budget and that funding assured to enable long-term investment.
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12/20 All UK peacekeeping should be funded through overseas aid, with savings in the MoD budget used to increase the UK’s military capability.
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13/20 Whilst humanitarian aid spending should be preserved, changes should be made to the definition of “international development” to allow more spending to be channelled through the FCO and MoD.
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14/20 The UK spends 0.7% of GNI on official development assistance.
The UK should cap the total amount of spending on “international development” at 0.7%. This target should only remain provided the UK gains the freedom to define aid.
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15/20 The 0.7% GNI target should not be mandatory but would depend on the quality of the projects.
Unallocated funding should be put into a UK Development Fund until projects are fully formulated.
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16/20 The UK should not provide official development assistance to countries with advanced military or space programmes unless there is a clear strategic purpose.
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17/20 The UK should bring military spending to historically “normal” levels, i.e. 2.5% to 3% of GDP, so that its armed forces can deploy in a meaningful way alongside allies globally.
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18/20 The UK should deepen ties with Canada, New Zealand and Australia in a new CANZUK alliance covering trade, defence, academia and research, and visa and travel agreements.
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19/20 Britain should make a renewed investment in the United Nations with greater support for its peacekeeping operations and key campaigns linked to the Three Freedoms.
The UK should also seek to champion a new round of free trade talks.
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20/20 Promoting the Three Freedoms abroad also means ensuring their protection at home. Britain should make its electoral system and governance more resilient to foreign influence.
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