Promoting British Values

British values centre on respect, tolerance, rule of law and freedom, and on the inherent dignity and equal rights of all individuals.  We believe that people’s desire for a better life in which they can fulfil their potential can only be satisfied in open and democratic societies that respond to popular will.  That is why we seek greater political and economic freedom across the world, oppose tyranny and hold repressive regimes to account.  It is also why we make respect for human rights a consistent theme that runs through Britain’s foreign policy.  It is something on which we will not compromise.