What does Global Britain mean? A conversation with Peter Ricketts and Peter Westmacott

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The Institute for Government was delighted to bring together two of the UK's most experienced former diplomats for a discussion on the future of Global Britain.

Lord Ricketts has held the posts of permanent secretary to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, National Security Adviser and UK Ambassador to France. Sir Peter Westmacott's distinguished career has included stints as the UK's Ambassador to the United States, France and Turkey. They discussed Britain's foreign policy priorities and how they can be achieved, the many international challenges and dilemmas facing the UK, and what Global Britain really means. They also discussed their newly published books: Hard Choices: what Britain does next by Peter Ricketts and They call it diplomacy - forty years of representing Britain abroad by Peter Westmacott.

Peter Ricketts and Peter Westmacott were in conversation with the IfG's Director, Bronwen Maddox.

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