Jeremy Hunt: Democracy’s Defeat Is Not Inevitable

In this latest Conflicted Conversation, Thomas talks with Tory MP Sir Jeremy Hunt. Over fourteen years of Conservative government, Hunt served as Culture Secretary, Health Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer. But in this discussion, Jeremy draws especially on his eventful year running the Foreign Office to argue against Western defeatism and to make the case for liberal democracy.

Sir Jeremy discusses:

The view from inside power during Britain’s 2010–2024 crisis years

Britain’s imperial inheritance, post-Brexit identity, and the “Global Britain” problem

Trump’s 2018 NATO shock and Hunt’s case for higher European defence spending

China, Russia and Iran as the new autocratic challenge to liberal democracy

Yemen and the Stockholm Agreement as a tragic test of humanitarian diplomacy

Iran, hostage diplomacy, the JCPOA and the limits of Western coercive power

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