Recent weeks have been a stark and tragic reminder of how the world’s problems touch our lives here in Britain. Migrants trying to break into lorries during wildcat strikes in Calais, men, women and children being pulled from ramshackle boats in the Mediterranean, and the horrific events of last Friday in Tunisia: these problems are not just on our TVs, they are on our doorsteps.
Faced with the choice of shaping the world or letting ourselves be shaped by it – we can and we must choose the former. We won’t resolve the crisis in the Mediterranean until more is done to stop these people leaving their countries in the first place. As the prime minister has said, we must break the link between embarking