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Malta Business Review THE INVISIBLE THREAD ONE-ON-ONE Jeremy Hunt, U.K. foreign secretary Editor’s Note Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt is a British Conservative Party politician serving as British Foreign Secretary since 2018 and Member of Parliament for South West Surrey since 2005. Hunt identifies as a one-nation conservative, and has been associated with both economically liberal and socially liberal policies Jeremy Hunt wants you to see him as a sincere and cooperative partner. The U.K. foreign secretary — who most recently made waves in Brussels by comparing the EU to the U.S.S.R. — answered EU Confidential’s questions on everything from the Nigerian election to Facebook (whose troubles he views as a national security issue) and, of course, Brexit. The chat was a mixture of olive branches and stiff upper lip, with the former going to the 48 percent of British voters that chose Remain in the Brexit referendum. In a way, Hunt doesn’t have a choice: His government’s official Brexit salespeople have consistently annoyed Brussels, and that U.S.S.R. comparison was distinctly unsubtle. Hunt wants a quick resolution to Brexit for “the sake of sanity of the population of Britain and indeed of Europe.” He added that “it’s massively in everyone’s interest to get back to stability.” As for Remainers, Hunt wants them to wake up in 10 years and feel that the outcome was not “as bad as I feared and the U.K. is flourishing.” He hopes the country will not have turned from “Great Britain into Little Britain.” If that sounds like a pitch to move into Downing Street as a unifying prime minister, be aware Hunt has no time for a second Brexit referendum. Going through with Brexit is “a test of our democratic credentials. Are we really a democracy in this country?” Beyond Brexit, Hunt said that “the strongest alliances in history are ones based on values,” which he said explains why countries rallied around Britain after the Skripal poisoning. That’s also why he told Tokyo to back off from trying to squeeze Britain at its moment of Brexit vulnerability for better trade terms or bigger subsidies. As Mr. Global Britain, Hunt is wedded to the idea of Britain as the world’s crossroads: “We’re not a superpower, but we shouldn’t underestimate our influence. We happen to be blessed with some of the best connections” to the U.S., EU and Commonwealth. “I want us to be an invisible thread linking the democracies of the world.” What about Huawei? “We’re feeling our way with China,” he said, just after reports that the U.K. National Cybersecurity Centre has deemed Huawei a “manageable risk,” in contrast to the U.S. and Australia, which have banned Huawei from building 5G mobile networks there. <strong>MBR</strong> 16
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