Recommendation 28

We welcome the Government’s efforts to diversify partnerships, illustrated by deepening trade and security collaboration with India and engagements with Gulf countries. This work is crucial both to ensuring the UK can draw on breadth and depth in its partnerships to support economic growth, and improve resilience during periods of heightened international tension. Recent support by the UK in deploying the RAF to the collective self-defence of Gulf countries in the face of Iranian strikes is welcome. (Conclusion, Paragraph 125)