28 Jan What does ‘Global Britain’ mean? – Le Monde

The phrase ‘Global Britain’ should get some meat on the bones in the coming months, as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson fleshes out his foreign policy strategy for the future. Sophia Gaston, Director of the British Foreign Policy Group, argued in French newspaper Le Monde that we don’t currently know exactly what the slogan means.

Sophia said: We’re still waiting to know what ‘Global Britain’ covers precisely, its ambition and the concrete steps to achieve it.’

Elsewhere in the article, the writer argued that Brexiteers were divided into two main camps: “(some) of the Brexiteers demanded to be more protected from globalization and expressed a (weariness) of immigration, (which they) considered excessive. Others, on a very ideological line, want the work of Margaret Thatcher to be “finished” and plead for the continuation of an ultraliberal agenda – hampered, according to them, by European rules.”

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