Britain is abandoning both Europe and its own liberal values

Preoccupied with Brexit and the need to cultivate new trading partners, the country is prioritising investment over human rights, and enabling authoritarianism elsewhere, says Mark Malloch-Brown

Britain's words and actions on the world stage are so at odds now with its values that one must wonder what has happened to it. Since the June, 2016 Brexit referendum, British foreign policy has all but collapsed. It seems to have disowned its past and its governing ideas.