For the Johnson government, Brexit has become more an ideology than a policy.īut the ideology of permanent Brexit cannot suspend the laws of distance and strategy. Even after formal Brexit, his government seems to need perennial fights with the EU to justify its political existence. For political observers in Britain and beyond, Johnson’s determination to secure a fully independent foreign policy for the UK was part and parcel of his successful domestic political strategy of permanent Brexit. Having executed at long last the geopolitical miracle of Brexit and unwound the UK from the thick tangle of its EU obligations, it only made sense for the UK to stride out into the world in a similarly independent fashion. Johnson’s vision for Global Britain had little role in it for the EU. New, but also old: Johnson exulted in the Painted Hall’s baroque celebration of the United Kingdom’s past maritime greatness, as he coloured the glorious future awaiting Britain as a global champion of free trade. On 3 February 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, fresh from the triumphant conclusion of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union and a crushing general election victory, chose the historic setting of the Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich to set out his vision of the country’s new role in the world.
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