LONDON: British Labour party leader Ed Miliband is to vow to end the country's "small-minded isolationist" attitude to Europe if he becomes prime minister after an election in two weeks' time.
In a Friday speech, the left-leaning party leader is to accuse Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron of risking Britain's national interests by giving in to eurosceptics, according to pre-released remarks.
"David Cameron has presided over the biggest loss of influence for our country in a generation," Miliband is to say in a speech at think tank Chatham House in London.
"It is time to reject the small-minded isolationism that has characterised this government."
"Because this government's approach has and weakened Britain at a time when the challenges are perhaps greater and more complex than at any time since the Second World War."
Foreign policy has been little debated in the campaign ahead for the May 7 vote aside from references to immigration, something the Labour Party said showed the "growing insularity of British politics".
In the speech, Miliband is to describe Cameron's absence from peace talks on the Ukraine crisis between French, German, Russian and Ukrainian leaders as an "apt symbol of Britain's isolation and waning influence".
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