As Bruce Sterling said in Early 2016 [1]:

Great Britain is becoming Little Britain. The UK is like a giant Cayman Islands in 2016. They used to be the wise and perfidious grownups in the geostrategic room, but now it's all about squalid, petty things like Brexit, Scottish secession, anti-immigration; British political extremes are thriving and the middle is dead as mutton. They've lost their soft-power by the bucketful; people who used to beg for their wise counsel now ignore them. What do they want -- to be Airstrip One for any creep with a trailer-truck full of cash? I've never seen them think so small.

This was even before the Brexit vote, and before BoJo became PM...

[1] https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/487/Bruce-St...