I am, as you say, the wrong person to ask about history, but I can, perhaps, be helpful in talking about what I have been able to see during my time here, which is that when we invest in diplomacy we get results. When we do it properly, and that is to say efficiently, using money as wisely as we possibly can, it increases the effectiveness of what we are doing.
I really don't have many views. I haven't seen our other residences or offices. I did as a journalist when I travelled the world. I guess what I would say is that we are a G7 country. We are important on the world stage. We will be even more important on the world stage as we transition in many areas of production. I think we have to understand that, while our friends are our friends in the G20 and the G7, they're also our competitors in places like New York. They're after the same pie I'm after. We have to be nimble. We have to be effective. We have to do it as best we can, keeping the taxpayer in mind and understanding that the more efficient we can be, the better we are.
