Rory Stewart

is a lefty bedwetter.

Clearly, what we should do is get right in behind the US.

It's very interesting.

It's as though the right really wasn't talking about sovereignty at all.

One almost gets the impression that their worldview is they don't like being told what to do by the French and the Germans, but they want to be told what to do by the US and Israel.

Interestingly, I also think they're going to become increasingly pro-Modi.

You can see there's a Conservative MP representing a Harrow constituency who's just got this medal from the Indian government.

But I wouldn't be surprised if we don't find out.

I'm teasing them about being too pro-US, too pro-Israel.

I think within five years' time, they'll be knee-jerking to the Indian position on the world too.

I think we should be cautious because I think it's an exciting idea.

But remember that India was engaged in the extrajudicial killing of Canadian citizens on Canadian territory not very long ago.

And Modi has been on the absolutely, on a very weird side on the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

He's not been providing support to Ukraine.

He's been buying Russian oil like bilio, filling Putin's coffers.

India missed its chance to step up for the rules-based order.

It invited Putin famously to come visit them.

So I would make the core of an argument for a values rules-based order.

Probably I'd go to New Zealand before I went to India.

But you've got to work on how on earth we hold Europe together.