Jeremy Hunt
Member of Parliament for South West Surrey (since 2005). UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (since 2018).

It is a great pleasure to be here in Paris this morning, in this historic setting.
This is – to use a little English understatement – an important moment in the future of the relationship between our countries.
There have been many such moments in the long sweep of our history, and we know, without a doubt, that there will be many more in the decades to come.
What matters is what we decide to do with those moments.
Those decisions fall to each generation.
To plot their own course and (...)

In 1898 when Theodore Roosevelt had just completed his tenure as the relatively lowly Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he said: “There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great responsibilities. We have now reached that time… all that we can decide is whether we shall bear ourselves well or ill.”
History will surely judge that the United States lived up to Roosevelt’s challenge. Thanks to wise decisions made by him and his successors, strong (...)