Cameron Bradbury: Suez at seventy – the crisis we remember wrong and the lessons we still misread

Cameron Bradbury: Suez at seventy – the crisis we remember wrong and the lessons we still misread

Cameron Bradbury is a former Senior Parliamentary Assistant to former Prime Minister Theresa May and currently works at the UK’s Great Britain China Centre on China policy. 2026 marks the seventieth anniversary of the Suez Crisis, remembered as the British Empire’s last roar before its ignominious retreat from the world stage. The orthodox telling portrays Suez as little more than a cynical imperialist power grab; but this couldn’t be further fr…