‘Global Britain’ badly needs a new driver at the wheel | William Keegan

The UK's feebleness abroad and supply-chain problems at home show how absurd the Brexiters' dream of a transformed nation was

So much for Global Britain. The fiasco and tragedy of the retreat from Afghanistan have laid bare the folly of the Brexiters' Faustian pact: choose the irresponsible but vote-winning Boris Johnson as your leader; say goodbye European Union, hello world"; and, oh dear, it turns out not to be the triumph they promised.

The combination of the insanity of Brexit and the Johnson government's manifest incompetence is now seen to be adding geopolitical impotence to economic self-harm. What an achievement! Global Britain? Whatever you say, President Biden. Three bags full, sir.

It may never - in Browning's words - be 'glad confident morning again' for Johnson as prime minister