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Adjusting the Special Relationship After Brexit
The U.K. and U.S. will remain close. Just a little less so.
Whatever.
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When Theresa May takes over as U.K. prime minister on Wednesday, her first job will be to steer the British economy past the shock of Brexit. But almost as important is the largest rewiring of British foreign policy since World War II -- including its relationship with its closest ally and former colony.