Boris Johnson will issue a warning that democracy is in retreat across the world and that a “cult of the strongman” is taking hold, raising the prospect that the concept of a global liberal order will fade into irrelevance. We have the cult of the strongman, we have democracy in retreat, we have an arc of instability across the Middle East from Iraq to Syria to Libya. He will say: “Britain is prepared to be tough with Russia. Johnson will also insist the Brexit vote does not mean the UK is becoming isolationist or turning its back on the world. To those who say we are now too small, too weak and too poor to have any influence on the world.

Source: The Guardian December 02, 2016 00:01 UTC