Liam Fox

Thursday

Liam Fox

China’s baby bust

From our UK edition

36 min listen

In this week’s episode:Is China heading for a demographic disaster?Rana Mitter and Cindy Yu discuss China’s declining birth rate and what this could do to the economy. (0.52)Also this week:What would foreign policy look like under a Liz Truss government?The Spectator's deputy political editor, Katy Balls is joined by Rishi Sunak supporter, Dr Liam Fox who is the MP for North Somerset, Former Defence and Trade Secretary. (13.40)And finally: As Rishi comes face-to-face with the Tory members, can he win them over?Fiona Unwin, who is the vice president of the West Suffolk Conservative association writes that to wow the grassroots, all Rishi Sunak has to do is meet them. But not all the members were persuaded.

Friday

Liam Fox

Watch: Liam Fox on why Scotland should remain in the Union

From our UK edition

Talking to Scottish voters over the last couple of weeks, a number of points have been made with increasing regularity. The first is that the ‘yes’ campaign has had all the emotional appeal, while the Better Together campaign has focused on practical concerns, largely about money. The second is that there has been too much concentration on why the Union is better with Scotland in it, rather than focusing on why Scotland is better in the Union – the main concern of Scottish voters. Third, it has been surprising to discover the number of voters who believe that if there is a yes vote and things go wrong, it will be possible to put the result into reverse at either a general election or a subsequent referendum.

Wednesday

Liam Fox

Egypt on the brink

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It is strange now to recall the jubilation with which the ‘Arab Spring’ was welcomed. Amid all the excitement of dictators toppling, many people here in the West, as well as some over there on the ground, forgot that the test of a revolution is not the overthrow of a tyrant, but what comes next. Though they will never admit it, the Arab revolutions surprised western governments as much as the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe. History is always producing the unexpected, which is why some of us never took it for granted that all this would have a happy ending. Now, almost two years after the Tahrir Square uprising, the fates of the revolutions and the region are at a deadly junction. The West’s swift initial support for the Egyptian rebels was understandable.