Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
As global politics becomes more unstable, enemies of liberty and progress seek to undermine liberal democracies. They're also finding new ways to circumvent economic sanctions, a core element in the toolkit of deterrence wielded by the UK. How can we innovate our sanctions regime to keep up with the times and keep our deterrents, well, deterrent?
We were delighted to host the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Buckland KBE KC (former Lord Chancellor), Dr. Neil Shastri-Hurst MP (Conservative MP for Solihull West and Shirley) and Maxwell Marlow (Director of Public Affairs at the Adam Smith Institute) to discuss how to fix UK sanctions.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Start
01:31 - Britain’s current sanctions framework
03:13 - The Labour government’s approach to sanctions
04:31 - A brief history to sanctions and their purpose
09:16 - The need to change the current sanctions framework
12:21 - A libertarian case for using sanctions
16:53 - A sanctions framework with our international partners
18:32 - A legal basis for dealing with non-war issues
22:02 - The issue of frozen assets
24:10 - The involvement of lawyers in the sanctions framework
25:40 - Implementation of this framework
27:35 - End
As global politics becomes more unstable, enemies of liberty and progress seek to undermine liberal democracies. They're also finding new ways to circumvent economic sanctions, a core element in the toolkit of deterrence wielded by the UK. How can we innovate our sanctions regime to keep up with the times and keep our deterrents, well, deterrent?
We were delighted to host the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Buckland KBE KC (former Lord Chancellor), Dr. Neil Shastri-Hurst MP (Conservative MP for Solihull West and Shirley) and Maxwell Marlow (Director of Public Affairs at the Adam Smith Institute) to discuss how to fix UK sanctions.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Start
01:31 - Britain’s current sanctions framework
03:13 - The Labour government’s approach to sanctions
04:31 - A brief history to sanctions and their purpose
09:16 - The need to change the current sanctions framework
12:21 - A libertarian case for using sanctions
16:53 - A sanctions framework with our international partners
18:32 - A legal basis for dealing with non-war issues
22:02 - The issue of frozen assets
24:10 - The involvement of lawyers in the sanctions framework
25:40 - Implementation of this framework
27:35 - End
