A biography for Dominic Raabhasn’t been written yet.
“Working as a Foreign Office lawyer in 2003, I was less worried by the quibbling over U.N. resolutions on Iraq than the coalition's capacity to effect positive change.”
“Iraq lacks leaders capable of soothing sectarian wounds, and Western attempts to pick them or force their hand invite anti-imperialist backlash.”
“Of course, we must properly equip our troops.”
“We have seen too many arbitrary Strasbourg diktats based on the whims of European judges - from prisoner voting to blocking deportation of Abu Qatada - rather than a sober reading of the sensible list of core freedoms in the European Convention itself.”
“For all its pro-democracy rhetoric, the West rolled over to military coups in Egypt and Thailand.”