After last night’s Syria vote, has Britain become the new Sweden?Tory MP and former minister Crispin Blunt on Radio 4 just now said MPs who defeated the PM yesterday were trying to enshrine a new paradigm of British foreign policy. We should draw in our horns, stop trying to maintain “imperial pretensions,” he said.
Paddy Ashdown told me that depressed him mightily, and Britain was sounding like it was turning into “Denmark or, more accurately, maybe Sweden” as Denmark still had “some international ambitions”.