UK Foreign Policy Influencers

The United Kingdom is Canada’s largest trading partner in Europe – and our third-largest globally. In 2024, two-way trade in goods and services reached $61 billion.

UK Foreign Policy Influencers   Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom @Keir_Starmer      David Lammy, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom @DavidLammy      Jonathan Nicholas Powell is a British civil servant and diplomat who has served as the UK National Security Advisor (NSA) under Keir Starmer since 2024      The Week: Jonathan Powell: who is the man behind Keir Starmer's foreign policy? Prime minister's national security adviser is a 'world-class operator' (August 18, 2025)      Sir Oliver Robbins, Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Affairs Head of HM Diplomatic Service      Sir Richard Moore - Chief of MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service @ChiefMI6      Blaise Florence Metreweli CMG scheduled to become Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service on 1 October 2025      Times Radio: Who is the new MI6 chief, Blaise Metreweli? | The Story      Peter Kyle - Minister of State for Business and Trade @peterkyle      GovUK:The Rt Hon Peter Kyle MP, Secretary of State for Business and Trade and President of the Board of Trade (includes UK Defence & Security Exports)      Tony Blair - Blair's continued influence on the party, and on Starmer led him to be ranked sixteenth in the New Statesman's Left Power List 2023      The Guardian: Postwar Gaza authority potentially led by Tony Blair ‘would sideline Palestinians’ (September 29, 2025)    Senior UK Ambassadors   James Roscoe, MVO is a British diplomat serves as the British Chargé d'affaires ad interim to the United States (former comms secretary to Queen Elizabeth II) Twitter mentions      Mr Peter Wilson CMG - Ambassador to China @PeterWilson      Nigel Casey - Ambassador to Russia @NigelCaseyHMA      Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby - Ambassador to the EU @LindsayCAppleby      Barbara Woodward - UK Perm Rep to the UN in NY @BWoodward_UN      UK High Commissioner to Canada is Robert Tinline. He took up the position in February 2025 @UKinCanada    UK Analysis   Politico: Trade policy: 20 people to meet at Labour conference We break down the 20 figures inside and outside government shaping Labour’s trade policy. (September 19, 2024)    Canada - UK Relations   Canada-United Kingdom Relations      Five Country Ministerial (& The Five Eyes)      Canada signs deal deepening European defence and security partnership (June 2025)    UK Defence   UK Ministry of Defence Governance      UK Chiefs of Staff Committee      Policy paper: The Strategic Defence Review 2025 - Making Britain Safer: secure at home, strong abroad (Updated 8 July 2025)      The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS): UK defence spending: composition, commitments and challenges (September 26, 2025)      UK Defence Journal @UKDefJournal      Janes @JanesINTEL