Lady Sugg hands in resignation after overseas aid cut by a third.
John Major says UK no longer ‘great power’
10/11/2020
The former prime minister warned that “complacency” and “nostalgia” are the routes to a national decline and that the UK’s global influence has relied upon history, fortified by membership of the EU and close ties to the US.
PM urged to recognise pursuit of no-deal Brexit would be regarded as serious error by US.
Post-Brexit UK will not be ‘centre of gravity’ for Biden administration, says former security adviser
27/10/2020
Ex-ambassador says Democrat White House would prioritise France and Germany.
Ivan Rogers, former UK ambassador to the EU, says prime minister will think ‘history was going his way’ if Donald Trump is re-elected
Belief that Britain is force for good in world is down 10 points from April 2019 in UK.
A former Conservative leader asked how the UK could “reproach” Russia, China and Iran for their conduct when it was prepared to break international laws.
Research into similar exercises in other countries has shown they lead to an exodus of talent and a loss of influence with key partners.
Former senior officials also worry Britain may be sidelined if Joe Biden becomes president.
A body representing the aerospace industry says it is "disappointed" that the government has not taken an "ambitious approach".
Decision on British overseas territory comes less than two weeks after UK left bloc.
Martin Wolf: Britain’s demands for its negotiations with the EU are unrealistic.
EU rules will still affect UK but Britain will have no say in setting them.
June Mummery said EU rules would still apply to Britain but that it would have no say.
Former Tory grandee accuses Boris Johnson of pursuing an ‘utterly disastrous’ Brexit policy.
Trump or Europe? New U.K. leader Boris Johnson to sample post-Brexit reality at G7 summit
22/08/2019
Boris Johnson is about to feel the pinch of Brexit Britain’s new global status: squeezed on one side by Europeans in no mood to yield, and on the other by a United States driving a hard bargain for its economic support.
Liberal Democrat and Labour MEPs have taken up committee jobs in ‘huge vote of confidence’.
'Self-damaging gesture': Boris Johnson plans to pull UK officials from EU meetings ahead of Brexit deadline
13/08/2019
'We're going to be depriving ourselves of a lot of information that we will be spending the next few years trying to find out by other means'
Critics say No 10 move to quit bloc’s institutional structures leaves UK blindsided. / British diplomats will pull out from the EU’s institutional structures of power in Brussels within days, under plans being drawn up by Downing Street.
Brexit has sent 'not as important' Britain into decades of decline, Irish PM Varadkar says
12/07/2019
Leo Varadkar says UK has struggled to accept its is less important than it once was.
Britain’s decision to leave the European Union is eroding its own influence in the world without hurting the bloc’s ability to wield global power, according to the EU’s top diplomat.