Foreign policy

• Vietnam war :

  Moral support without military support in order to relieve tensions from protests but maintain US relationship
• Dennis Healyes plan had troops withdraw from Malaysia, middle.east and Singapore as to bring defence budgets below $2 million
• Cuts didnt go far enough but after pound devluation they pulled troops out by end of 1971
• Although labour were battling high defence spending they didn’t consider cutting nuclear out as they deployed Polaris
• Rhodesia

  • Winds of change speech in cape town
  • Ian smith took over and make Britain look weak as pil sanctions were easily bypassed through trade and he didnt listen