Jeremy Hunt Can We Be Great Again?: Why a Dangerous World Needs Britain

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After a turbulent decade, is Britain destined for declineor still capable of real global influence?

Drawing on his time as Foreign Secretary and Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt argues that Britain still has the heft to shape eventsfrom European security and the future of democracy to migration, trade and climateso long as it acts with clear-eyed confidence abroad and honesty about its weaknesses at home. Expect him to test Britains real strengths in diplomacy, alliances, soft power, finance and science; to set priorities across Europe, NATO and the Indo-Pacific in an age of shocks; and to share hard-won lessons from the Foreign Office and the Treasury about what actually works. Early reviewers have called the book a masterly analysis of why Britain has much more global influence than it thinks, in Eric Schmidts phrase (former CEO Google), while the Observer praised its rangechewy chapters on security democracy, mass migration, climate change full of good facts that make you learn a lot.

Jeremy Hunt is a British politician who has served in senior Cabinet roles including Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Earlier in his career he was Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, becoming the UKs longest-serving Health Secretary. Before entering Parliament he founded an educational publishing company, later chaired the Health and Social Care Select Committee, and has focused across government and opposition on economic growth, national security and public-service reform.

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