UK: Government-favoured think tank moves into security

Never slow to see a sector in need of its input, London-based Policy Exchange, which has been described as the largest and most influential think tank on the centre-right wing of British politics, has launched a new National Security Unit. It was inaugurated with a keynote address on nuclear deterrence by defence secretary Michael Fallon; former Nato secretary-general and New Labour grandee Lord Robertson of Port Ellen delivered a vote of thanks. The new unit is headed by Dr John Bew, of King’s College London’s War Studies Department and a former Henry A Kissinger chair at the Library of Congress.