6 February 2007
The UK faces a "huge question" over the direction of foreign policy, Tony Blair said today.
Appearing before MPs at the Commons Liaison Committee, Mr Blair said we had to decide whether we wanted to continue along the same path as recent years.
"I think that is a huge question for the future. Do we want to continue on that path or do we want, for example, to choose a more European way over an American way? That is the debate that is going on there.
"I would say for us now the critical thing is to say, given what foreign policy that we have had over the last decade - highly interventionist, based on hard and soft power, with those alliances, Europe and America - is this the right way forward for our country or should we take a step back, maybe, and not be engaged in these international issues as we have been?"
Last month, the PM spoke about continuing to engage in "hard" and "soft" power on the changing world stage in the latest of his Our Nation’s Future lectures.
Our Armed Forces needed to be "warfighters as well as peacekeepers" to face challenges such as terrorism and poverty, he told an audience on-board HMS Albion in Plymouth.
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