Politics: In times such as these, a government needs a proper strategic foreign policy

The coalition’s approach to foreign policy is not to have a foreign policy.

The coalition’s approach to foreign policy is not to have a foreign policy. There is no Cameron doctrine. As events unfold in Egypt, the government does not even know what it wants to happen. Alistair Burt, the Middle East minister, summed up this position rather brilliantly when he said ‘the tide is turning very strongly.