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26 Sep 2017 09:44When Theresa May appointed Boris Johnson Foreign Secretary it was viewed by some as unexpected proof that she had a sense of humour.
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12 Jun 2017 07:57For the next few months, with the exception of the Brexit negotiations, Britain will be engaging in an act of introspection unprecedented in most of our lifetimes. The world will have to wait.
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20 Apr 2017 15:41If the Conservatives are returned with a large majority, EU negotiators will know there is a limit to how far they can push Britain.
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31 Mar 2017 11:00Sturgeon has sought a second poll for Scotland, and the idea of Ireland reuniting has been raised again – but none of this is quite as it seems.
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17 Oct 2016 08:36For years in Britain the idea of the Commonwealth looked marginal at best, eccentric at worst.
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21 Sep 2016 13:53To those of us who have followed David Cameron’s political career since it was in the womb, his
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08 Aug 2016 08:45It is over 50 years since American Secretary of State Dean Acheson said that Britain had lost an empire but was yet to find a role.
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22 Jul 2016 11:07In 1966, Britain's Labour prime minister, Harold Wilson, appointed George Brown as foreign secretary.
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