estate as power shifts from the east and the west? instead, we're abandoning it, and now we leave that vacuum, and the countries all around, including pakistan and india, will now try to exploit and further their own challenging agendas. but the point is, tobias ellwood, you say all of this to me — i just wonder if you're saying it to your own party boss and prime minister, borisjohnson, because boris johnson is saying nothing of what you're saying, and we see no indication that the uk government perceives that its strategic interest right now is telling the americans that it's making a fundamental mistake. i'm honoured to think that you think i have a direct line to this government and they listen to me. i'm not saying that — i'm saying if you don't think the uk government listens to you at all, is there any point you sitting on the government benches? i don't sit on the government benches. i'm not a government minister. i provide oversight of what the government does. well, with respect, you sit on the government side of the house of commons.