Squeezing Brexit in at the UN

To international affairs this time. The main thrust of hte Graun article is about the debate at the UN, especially over Trump's sanctions against nations trading with Iran. But the headline takes a different view: 

Thanks to Brexit, the British voice counts for less at the UN

The Graun worried about 'the British voice'? It seem so, although it doesn't usually wave the Union Flag. Everything changes if there is a chance to rebuke Brexit, of course. What is the anti-Brexit thrust?

But in truth, the British voice on everything else at the UN counts for less than it did under Tony Blair, Gordon Brown – or even David Cameron...if May has any foreign policy theme, it is submerged by Brexit...

What is the crucial evidence for this?

Broadcasters accompanying her to New York were each allocated four questions – and each confined themselves to Brexit – as if Iran, the UK’s aid budget, Myanmar, Yemen or even the UK military bombing of Syria were non-issues...Such monomania leaves the impression that the UK is a country apart, involved in its own conversation, and checked out from the world debates.

But doesn't that tell us something about the broadcasters rather than the UK?

That is not a true picture of British diplomatic effectiveness at the UN – but sometimes impressions become the reality

Heaven forfend that the Guardina should do anything to rectify these impressions! The British imperial lion will be even more muted in the future, an affront to all patriotic Guradnia readers everywhere, and a condemnation of Brexit that even Daily Mail readers would surely greet with sympathy.

Even if all goes to plan with Brexit, next year’s general assembly will be just as hard...For the first time in decades, Britain will find itself as a non European Union member, forced to justify its claim to be one of the five permanent members of the UN security council – and British leaders (whoever they may be) will have to work even harder just to be heard.