{"id":278070,"date":"2016-11-08T21:51:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T20:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uks-global-influence-at-risk-if-it-separates-from-eu-ex-official\/"},"modified":"2016-11-08T21:51:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T20:51:42","slug":"uks-global-influence-at-risk-if-it-separates-from-eu-ex-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uks-global-influence-at-risk-if-it-separates-from-eu-ex-official\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s global influence at risk if it separates from EU: Ex-official"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Britain\u2019s global influence is at risk if separates from the European Union\u2019s single market and continues to denigrate foreigners, a former government official has warned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sir Simon Fraser, who was permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office until last year, said it was inevitable that the Brexit vote to leave the EU would diminish UK influence overseas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter how well we manage the process and however good the assets we have, structurally it is going to be much more difficult to exert global influence after Brexit,\u201d Fraser said on Monday at King\u2019s College in London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is already evidence of potential self-harm in our behavior to foreign people: the reported spike in hate crime, the insensitive comments of some British politicians, and the shocking press coverage of the legal judgment on article 50,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope our political leaders will show more skill and wisdom in the next chapter of our European relationships&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/11\/08\/492765\/UK-EU-Brexit-Sir-Simon-Fraser\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s global influence is at risk if separates from the European Union\u2019s single market and continues to denigrate foreigners, a former government official has warned. Sir Simon Fraser, who was permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office until last year, said it was inevitable that the Brexit vote to leave the EU would diminish UK influence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-278070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}