STEPHEN GLOVER: Crisis shows how independent UK wields more influence

What is surely undeniable is that the Government has succeeded in exercising considerable influence outside the EU — which is more or less the opposite of the doomsters’ prediction.

This is especially true of East European EU members such as Poland and the Baltic States, which appreciate Britain’s vigorous response to Russia’s invasion. The Prime Minister was welcomed as a cherished ally when he visited Warsaw, and Tallinn in Estonia, on Tuesday. Britain has 900 troops in Estonia, a number that is set to double.

As the invasion of Ukraine has served to turn the former comic actor President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine into an heroic and inspirational defender of his homeland, so it may have helped transform the erstwhile jokey presenter of the BBC’s Have I Got News For You, namely Boris Johnson, into a formidable figure.

So, in short, theories about Britain’s supposedly inevitable marginalisation after Brexit, and forecasts of a prolonged and bitter post-divorce estrangement, have been exploded by the crisis in Ukraine.

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