Post-Brexit Britain: Death of a global power?

Leave campaigners insist Britain will have a role on the global stage, but is the world moving on?

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Three weeks after Britain voted to withdraw from the European Union, newly minted Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was full of optimism about the UK's future as a world power.

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