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“We have, in the last few centuries, contributed a lot more good than bad to the world.”
The claim is an overall assessment of Britain’s historical impact as having done “more good than bad,” which is a value judgment about contribution and significance rather than a concrete, testable fact or causal mechanism.
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I think the fact that, whilst our history is not perfect – no country’s is – I think we have in the last few centuries contributed a lot more good than bad to the world. I think the way that we – through civil war and evolution – put together a form of parliamentary democracy that was viewed by the rest of the world as a civilised model to adopt. And, I think, to have had, since Magna Carta, an evolving but very stable and sound judicial system that actually gives the individual of this country much greater liberty and protection from the state than virtually anywhere else in the world.
I see those things as being very important, and I see those things as being very much under threat.
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