Boris Johnson reveals Britain has global influence beyond that of any European country

Britons are overwhelmingly in favour of the Authorities pushing on with a full-blooded Brexit, a ballot exhibits as we speak – precisely six months after the historic vote.

In line with the survey, 54 per cent of individuals imagine the Authorities ought to set off Article 50 as quickly as attainable so Britain can take again management of its legal guidelines, borders, cash and commerce.

Solely 20 per cent of the two,009 individuals quizzed by ICM pollsters for Change Britain disagreed.

Even 42 per cent of Labour voters stated they needed to kick-start Britain's departure from the EU as quickly as attainable. And solely 29 per cent disagreed, regardless of a lot of Labour MPs threatening to frustrate the method.

Britons are overwhelmingly in favour of the Authorities pushing on with a full-blooded Brexit, a ballot exhibits as we speak – precisely six months after the historic vote

It got here as Boris Johnson used an article for MailOnline as we speak to declare that Britain has a world affect far past that of some other European nation.

The International Secretary evoked Winston Churchill's wartime speech to say Britain has an 'empire of the thoughts'.

On the six-month anniversary of the historic referendum vote, he stated there are British troops in 80 totally different international locations this Christmas, far outstripping any of our EU neighbours.

Mr Johnson, who led the Brexit marketing campaign, stated Britain had 268 diplomatic missions around the world – the third largest diplomatic community globally.

He made the remarks in an unique article for MailOnline, revealed under.

Praising the work of the British Forces Postal Service, he says: 'I feel you'd be amazed on the scale of the operation, as a result of you might have most likely forgotten that British forces are deployed – as I write – in additional than 80 international locations around the globe.

'That's excess of some other European nation.'

He says there are servicemen and ladies in jungles, on ships, and in deserts this Christmas.

The ICM survey was performed for the Change Britain pro-Brexit stress group, whose chairwoman is Labour MP Gisela Stuart. She is pictured with Boris Johnson, who used an article for MailOnline as we speak to declare that Britain has a world affect far past that of some other European nation

Mr Johnson provides: 'Though Britain fortunately now not has an empire, we've got an empire of the thoughts, with myriad British personnel doing good, and expressing British values, in each nation on the earth.'

In 1943, Winston Churchill delivered a speech at Harvard College wherein he anticipated how totally different the world could be after World Conflict Two.

He stated: 'The empires of the longer term are the empires of the thoughts.'

The ICM survey was performed for the Change Britain pro-Brexit stress group, whose chairwoman is Labour MP Gisela Stuart.

These surveyed had been requested whether or not they agreed with the assertion: 'The Authorities ought to set off Article 50 as quickly as attainable and get on with implementing the results of the referendum to take Britain out of the EU and in doing so take again management of our borders, legal guidelines, cash and commerce.'

She stated the outcomes confirmed that politicians in search of to 'dilute' Brexit or demanding a second referendum on the result of Article 50 negotiations 'are a whole lot of miles away from the place the general public stand'.

Ms Stuart stated: 'On June 23, the British public voted for actual change. Six months on, it's clear that the British individuals do not remorse their resolution.

'When politicians like Tim Farron and Nick Clegg discuss a second referendum and diluting Brexit, they're a whole lot of miles away from the place the general public stand.

'The British individuals had been clear on what they voted for - management of our legal guidelines, borders, cash and commerce. They now need politicians to get on with the job of delivering this.'

BORIS JOHNSON EXCLUSIVE: 'Although Britain fortunately now not has an empire, we've got an empire of the thoughts...' 

Aha, I say to myself, what have we right here? I'm standing within the British Forces Submit Workplace at RAF Northolt, and I spot a well-known object being lowered on to the conveyor belt.

The scale and heft are unmistakable. It is a crate of wine, half a dozen bottles, and so – with out delaying its progress for quite a lot of seconds – I decide it up and browse the label.

It is French. It is purple; it seems to be fairly drinkable and it is heading for a Lt-Colonel in an African nation – one the place the principles allow him a tipple. As I briefly cradle the officer' Christmas wine order, I think about the sort of a 12 months he has had.

International Secretary Boris Johnson used an article for MailOnline as we speak to declare that Britain has a world affect far past that of some other European nation

I see him on the market amid the flies and the warmth – a personality from a William Boyd novel: perspiring, hassled, however genial and eternally optimistic. He might be engaged in one among any variety of helpful missions.

He might be there to assist clear mines; he might be supporting a UN Peacekeeping pressure. He is perhaps tackling Ebola or another appalling pure phenomenon.

Or he and his colleagues might be there to assist oversee free and truthful elections, to assist safeguard the democratic rules that now appear to be in retreat in some components of Africa.

I think about that he has most likely had a hell of a 12 months; and so I do not suppose anybody on this nation may conceivably begrudge that soldier his inalienable proper, this Christmas, to place his toes up and having made positive that every one is properly with the turkey and the sprouts – or regardless of the native equal is – to uncork this wine and lift a quiet glass.

We have now 268 diplomatic missions around the world – the third largest diplomatic community globally

He wants it; he deserves it. Because of the British Forces Submit Workplace he's one among 1000's of personnel abroad who're getting Christmas letters and parcels that will be in any other case logistically not possible to ship.

The workers right here at Northolt – the one WW2 airbase nonetheless in use - have been up for the reason that small hours of the night time; and within the interval main as much as breakfast it has been a frenzy of exercise.

The mail arrives in vans from the Submit Workplace, and goes via bomb-proof screening machines. The parcels are then loaded on to an enormous conveyor belt, above head peak.

An infra-red machine reads the BFPO quantity (BFPO 1 was once Hong Kong, for example, although they now have a extra refined system); and the parcels are then despatched to their locations.

They go to women and men in jungles, and on ships, and in deserts. They go to the troops in Afghanistan and in Operation Shader in Iraq. And so they go to our diplomats and different civil servants around the globe in our Embassies and Excessive Commissions, a few of whom are doing work simply as harmful and troublesome as our navy.

I feel you'd be amazed on the scale of the operation, as a result of you might have most likely forgotten that British forces are deployed – as I write – in additional than 80 international locations around the globe. That's excess of some other European nation.

And we've got 268 diplomatic missions around the world – the third largest diplomatic community globally.

All of them want stuff, they usually want it in well timed trend. The BFPO makes positive that they get it – all of the issues that they could not procure of their posts: medicines, Marmite, cricket-balls, love-tokens. I see a number of secret-looking stuff in tightly sealed plastic tubs, going to a vacation spot I cannot reveal.

On the finish of my tour of the positioning, all of us go and have some tea and mince pies.

There are about 60 of the workforce there, and I thank them for all they're doing; and remind them of the well-known citation on the aspect of the Submit Workplace in New York.

'Neither rain nor snow nor warmth nor gloom of night time shall keep these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds'. That was Herodotus, within the fifth century BC, describing the postal service of the Nice King of Persia.

Nothing will cease the BFPO this Christmas, neither rain nor snow – nor strikes, come to that. And although Britain fortunately now not has an empire, we've got an empire of the thoughts, with myriad British personnel doing good, and expressing British values, in each nation on the earth.

It's the work of the BFPO to maintain them fuelled with festive parcels – and different essential stuff.

Their labour is significant, and largely unsung; and when the great Lt Col pours his libation in Africa, I hope the BFPO will determine amongst his toasts.  

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