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Analysis: Global Britain: is there substance behind the slogan?

Global Britain: is there substance behind the slogan?

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Post-Brexit, the UK is re-branding itself as "Global Britain", but what does that mean?

Post-Brexit, the UK is re-branding itself as "Global Britain", but what does that mean? And will a pivot to the Indo-Pacific harm relations with the EU and US? With Chris Morris.

Having left the EU, the UK is now re-branding itself as "Global Britain", but what does that actually mean? A key plank of the new foreign policy is a pivot to the "Indo-Pacific". How is this seen in India? And how should Britain deal with China, described as a "challenge" in the government's recently published Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy?  And where does all this leave  relations with the EU and US? 
Should "Global Britain" try to reassert itself as a major power on the international stage, or would the UK's interests be better served by acting as a broker between larger, or like-minded, countries instead, to help bring about beneficial agreements?
And what effect could the reduction in the overseas development aid budget from 0.7% to 0.5% of Gross National Income have on Britain's "soft power" abroad, with the deep real-terms cuts to humanitarian and other programmes that this will mean for countries such as Yemen or Malawi? 

Presenter: Chris Morris 
Producer: Arlene Gregorius
Editor: Jasper Corbett

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