Boris Johnson Outlines Activist Post-Brexit Vision: Beyond Brexit

What’s happening? The European Union takes legal action against the U.K., threatens to withhold vaccine exports, and dampens hopes of an deal on financial services.

Boris Johnson’s grand plan for post-Brexit Britain involves, it turns out, a bigger nuclear weapons stockpile and a more activist approach to climate change. The prime minister’s 100-page blueprint for diplomacy and defense, released this week, was billed as the most wide ranging rewrite of the U.K.’s international priorities since the Cold War. His insistence that Britain must be ready to increase trade with China faced criticism that his government is putting commercial deals ahead of security and human rights.