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Gladstone Samuel Brittan: Letter in The Spectator 19/04/03 From Samuel Brittan Alastair Campbell (Spectator April 12) has performed a public service in reminding your readers of Gladstone's excellent principles of foreign policy, e.g. "The great duty of a government is… to soothe and tranquillise the minds of the people not set up false phantoms of glory…" How much more inspiring and realistic these are than the vainglorious dreams of today's liberal imperialists and neoconservatives alike. If these are not the principles of the present Prime Minister they ought to be, irrespective of one's attitude to the Iraq War. It is sad if these are really "markedly different" from the principles of Tony Blair. Samuel Brittan London W11 PS. Of course I know about Gladstone's subsequent occupation of Egypt, which led to the resignation of the radical John Bright from his cabinet.
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