International Security Working Group

Last year, the party endorsed a wide-ranging policy paper on international security covering defence and security, diplomacy, international development and soft power. We knew then that a Trump return to the White House would pose new challenges.

Now that the grave challenges to the future of NATO, European security and more are starting to become clear, and will continue to evolve, a new policy working group will review our previous approach in the light of the world of ongoing developments, to outline our distinctive Liberal Democrat response to Trump, Putin and the other global challenges we face.

This working group is producing a consultation paper for Spring Conference 2026 and the final paper will be ready for Autumn Conference 2026.

The remit of this group is to review the party’s policies on international security, and make updated proposals which communicate our values of liberty, equality, democracy, community, internationalism and environmentalism in a way which helps secure the election of as many Liberal Democrats as possible, at local, regional and national level, in order to promote our vision of society.

The group's full remit is set out here.

Members of the Group:

  • Dr Ben Jones (chair)
  • Calum Miller MP
  • Helen Maguire MP
  • Mike Martin MP
  • The Lord Purvis of Tweed
  • Baroness Smith of Newnham
  • Dr Christine Cheng
  • Hannah Bettsworth
  • Michael Davenport
  • Richard Dickson
  • Khadija Elmorabit
  • Rowan Fitton
  • Neil Grayston
  • Cllr Noel Hadjimichael
  • Maksim Karliuk
  • Iain King CBE
  • Martyn Knights
  • Dominic Martin
  • Tamara Moranjak
  • Jonny Singh
  • Andrew Tucker
  • Cllr Irina Von Wiese

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