Foreign Affairs Committee
14 July 2026
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Foreign Affairs Committee Actual start House of Commons
17:33 - 19:27
Speaker 1
Foreign Secretary, last time we saw you before the committee was in December last year, and we're pleased to see you again to cover a wide range of issues that are currently on your desk.
And we're also really pleased to see Nick Dyer for your first appearance as interim Permanent Under-Secretary. We know that your time is tight and so we'd be grateful, we have a large number of questions. We'd be grateful if you could keep your answers as concise as possible and I will encourage the committee to do the same with questions. What I wanted really to start with was, was the last time we saw you, as I say, was December the 16th. And at that time you were working to the priorities of the former Secretary of State.
But in March this year you wrote to us setting out your six priorities. And they were security, growth and resilience, migration, development and climate, women and girls, and agile alliances. And then, and then in the House in March, when you were discussing the ODA cuts, you said that your priorities would be Ukraine, Sudan, Palestine, and Lebanon.
So I looked with interest at your Chatham House essay. And the Guardian said about it that it was the clearest, one of the clearest and most comprehensive pictures of the Foreign Secretary's worldview, where she thinks her department should devote its attention in the coming years. Is that right? So, in the Guardian article, I think that in the interview you said, "I think AI is going to end up being the dominant foreign policy issue that we deal with over the next two years." But obviously that wasn't mentioned in the six points in March.
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