British foreign minister Dominic Raab warns that democracy is in retreat around the world. — Reuters picLONDON, March 16 ― Democracy is in retreat around the world, British foreign minister Dominic Raab will warn today in a speech setting out the danger that autocratic regimes pose to global stability and prosperity.
Speaking to the US Aspen Security Forum to project that new agenda beyond a domestic audience, Raab will sum up the foreign policy review as a mission to be a “force for good in the world”, saying that global democratic institutions are under their greatest threat since the end of the Cold War in 1989-90.
“Tyranny is richer than freedom, and that matters to us here at home because stable, freedom-respecting democracies are much less likely to go to war, house terrorists or trigger large scale flows of migrants,” Raab said. Since its 2016 vote to leave the European Union, Britain have been searching for a new role on the global stage which lives up to the promise made by Brexit campaigners ― namely that, outside the EU, British influence would be projected around the world and bring greater economic prosperity.
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