
Boris Johnson's boast of a 'Global Britain' is taking a pounding amid series of crises
CNN
Britain's overseas reputation has been tarnished lately, and some of it is entirely self-inflicted.
From images of burly police officers wrestling women to the ground to claims of racism in the royal family, accusations of Brexit rule-breaking and even a coronavirus variant first detected in England and now spreading across the globe, the United Kingdom is coming up tainted in the court of international opinion. The latest crisis came this weekend, when images of a crackdown on a peaceful London vigil for a murdered woman were beamed around the world.
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