UK - So, let’s take stock for a moment of the damage that Sir Keir Starmer has inflicted in less than a fortnight to this country’s global reputation. We are a nuclear power, a P5 country – one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. The UK is, by tradition, the second most important player in Nato, which is still the most successful military alliance in history. We are in the G7. In spite of all the fiscal vandalism of Starmer and his Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, the UK remains the fifth or sixth biggest economy in the world. We have superlative security and intelligence services, and colossal reach and influence. Yet Starmer has somehow contrived to make us not merely a laughing stock but something actually worse – a piffling irrelevance.