I don’t think it is possible. So this suggestion you can really, in the modern era, simply split up the international and domestic, is just … it just doesn’t make sense.
Keir Starmer: “I don’t think it is possible. So this suggestion you can really, in the modern era, simply split up the international…”
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On the challenges of separating international and domestic issues.
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