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Interview on GBNews’ Sunday with Michael Portillo’, 11 June 2023. View here
“… environmentalists really ought to be out there marching in protest to this extraordinary catastrophe that has been brought upon Ukraine by this military action.
“…This must not be allowed to become a third world war but the way to stop that is a decisive response to this ecocide. I believe the British people recognise that and are …
Lord Owen discusses breaking away from Labour—having become their Foreign Secretary aged just 38—with the ‘Gang of Four’ to form the SDP. He reviews this defining moment in UK political history; the SDP’s legacy; which PMs suffer ‘hubris syndrome’; the economy; the NHS; and much more.
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“…an underlying substantial increase in the size of our national debt …has in part been deliberately masked...there will be no long-term solution…until we face up to the record of the Treasury & the Bank as an overdominant force making bad decisions (contributing) to Britain’s economic failures.”
Lord Owen’s analysis of the issues currently facing Britain is set out in a new discussion paper published in March 2023 by the …
“This timely new edition…advances our understanding of past British-Russian relations and the present conflict…(written) through the lens of a former cabinet minister who has seen diplomacy close-up,” notes reviewer Richard Foot MP in The House magazine 20 February 2023. “Owen has found his subject move in the last 18 months from being a fringe concern to being central to global security.”
Lord Owen is among a cross-party group of senior UK politicians demanding a special tribunal to investigate Russia for a “crime of aggression” against Ukraine. The move is designed to “show Vladimir Putin and his generals that they will be held to account.”
“In a joint statement shared with the Observer, figures including the Labour leader Keir Starmer, the former Nato secretary general George Robertson, the former foreign secretary …
Lord Owen speaks on the crisis in the Ukraine in the UK’s House of Lords Debate on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Wednesday 18 May 2022. Lord Owen highlights the “very clear need throughout the allied world for unity” and the significance of NATO.
Lord Owen discusses his book Riddle, Mystery and Enigma: Two hundred years of British – Russian Relations with political observer Will Barber Taylor on the ‘Debated’ podcast. The conversations ranges from George Canning’s time as Foreign Secretary; to Britain, Russia and the Great Game; the impact of communism on 20th century politics; the Russian invasion of Ukraine; and Britain’s recent decision to send migrants to Rwanda.
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Lord Owen writing in the April 2022 issue of The Critic.
“The Russian invasion of Ukraine has highlighted the folly of proposals for a European army.”
“…. no leader of Russia … has shown the same readiness to use nuclear weapons (or) made it clearer that he wishes to regain territory lost from the USSR since the fall of the Berlin Wall.”
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