“I urge all leaders in this audience to go back to their countries and hammer home this simple message: what we have in the UN is not to be destroyed.”

Not enough people … realise that what took place in San Francisco in 1945 was a triumph for international diplomacy and the fact that there has been no World War III owes a great deal to the successes of the UN. We must NOT allow President Trump to ride roughshod over its record and achievements.

Read the full speech here: https://www.lorddavidowen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Oxford-Speech.pdf