A veteran of such impossible negotiations as North Korea, the FARC and the two Irelands, will Jonathan Powell succeed in the most difficult of them all: restoring London's strategic room for manoeuvre vis-à-vis Washington, while retaining influence?
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The Falklands, Iran, Ukraine, the Middle East, Diego Garcia... the UK is watching with dismay as the White House abandons British security foundations that have existed since the Second World War. Having started in the political arena, the most taboo question of all since 1945 is now seeping into Britain's intelligence apparatus: how can the country break free from - or at least disminish - its dependence on Washington? Three people in the British government find themselves having to urgently reinvent the country's entire security architecture, and on a shoestring budget.
Part 3Jonathan Powell, the Cassandra of the ‘special relationship' turned Prometheus of new alliances
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