This report attempts to provide a maximally sleek strategic overview to inform Labour policy and thinking on the UK-Ukraine (UK-UA) relationship and on Russia’s war against Ukraine. In so doing, it draws on interviews with a wide range of senior Ukrainian, British, American, EU, and Russian officials and foreign policy elites as well as close to a decade of academic research on Russian foreign policy, propaganda, and public attitudes towards Ukraine and the West.

An incoming Labour Government should appoint a Minister for Migration with joint departmental responsibilities in the Home Office and Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office to tackle the current migration crisis, deal with small boats, and responsibly manage migration ODA spending.

In June 2021, the Turkish government began construction of the Istanbul Canal, a new waterway just West of the Bosporus Strait. This Canal poses concerns for the Montreux Convention (1936), an international agreement which regulates the movement of commercial and military vessels into and out of the Black Sea.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming a key area of industrial strategy and international cooperation and competition.

AI has made much progress over the past decade, which has been called the “AI Summer”. In particular, the launch of ChatGPT has rocketed AI up the agenda of many companies and governments. AI progress is likely to continue at a rapid pace over the coming decade.

Labour should urge the Government to step up emergency aid efforts to Turkey and Syria, including increasing the amount of emergency aid in line with the rising number of people impacted in the region.