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‘Global Britain’? Don’t believe the Brexiteers’ hype

The idea Britons voted to leave the EU in order to become ‘more global’ is mere propaganda from politicians who have mainstreamed far right attitudes to immigration.

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Image: The infamous 'breaking point' poster during the EU referendum campaign. Philip Toscano/PA Images, all rights reserved.

As the Prime Minister prepares to address the Conservative party conference in Manchester, the shadow of uncertainty looms over her position and over the course of Brexit. What a difference a year makes. At the 2016 conference, May had solidified her position as PM and delivered arguably the most hard-line, right-wing speech from a sitting PM in living memory. She mimicked the populist style of European far-right parties, criticising ‘international elites’ and making the now infamous claim ‘if you believe you are a citizen of the the world, you are a citizen of nowhere’.