Britain must sometimes support 'unsavoury regimes', report states

Study admits that hasty efforts to set up liberal democratic institutions are likely to fail

Britain’s big postwar era foreign interventions have not relied enough on striking bargains between sometimes unsavoury regional elites, a Foreign Office study endorsed by ministers has found.

“There will be times when we have to hold our nose and support dialogue with those who oppose our values, or who may have committed war crimes,” said Alistair Burt, a Foreign Office minister who commissioned the report.

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