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Analysts in Europe say Britain committed “Anglo-Saxon suicide” when it voted for Brexit.
There is far too much at stake to take any pleasure in this bizarre political reversal.
Fisking Frost - Chris Grey
12/03/2021
[This post will] provide a detailed analysis of an article written by David (now Lord) Frost in this week’s Sunday Telegraph.
Lady Sugg hands in resignation after overseas aid cut by a third.
France replacing Brexit and austerity-battered UK as America's main military partner under Trump, experts say
28/04/2019
United States' last three formal defence reviews predicated on assumption Britain will never again fight a war without its help.
The UK’s decision to leave the EU, or ‘Brexit’ as its colloquially known, impact show the UK is perceived by other states, including its perceived reliability as a multilateral partner.
Global Britain or Lonely Britain?
02/02/2022
Despite its claims of exceptionalism and the freedom to succeed outside of the European Union, in reality, the UK is no longer in the room where it happens, says former British diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall.
"Brexit’s underlying geopolitical expectations have turned out to be mistaken."
It has not even been five months since the end of the Brexit transition period and there have been armed patrol vessels in the Channel.
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.
Decision on British overseas territory comes less than two weeks after UK left bloc.
Is Britain committing commercial suicide?
27/02/2020
A 19th Century trade agenda will decimate the most productive parts of the 21st Century economy.
Trump’s national security adviser wants the UK to be beholden to the US for its daily bread, making the country a timid American outpost.
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.
Ivan Rogers, former UK ambassador to the EU, says prime minister will think ‘history was going his way’ if Donald Trump is re-elected
The prime minister’s snappy, inane slogan is the prelude to inevitable lies, betrayal and duplicity.
It wasn’t just bad for Britain, says Australia’s former prime minister – Brexit hurt the liberal democratic order as well.
Party hopes to attend meetings of EU foreign affairs council should it win UK election.
The shadow Northern Ireland secretary appeared alongside Charlie McConalogue at a Business Post event in London.
Brexit minister says EU move would be to the detriment of viewers but admits UK is powerless to prevent it.
"It's the day in which Britain lost more power and influence than in any other day of my peacetime life.” Lord Heseltine speaks to Emily Maitlis on the day Article 50 was triggered - starting the process of the UK leaving the EU.
Former Tory grandee accuses Boris Johnson of pursuing an ‘utterly disastrous’ Brexit policy.