As the UK is excluded from the latest US/EU initiative, Steve Richards asks what is its role in the world? The same question was asked during the Suez crisis in 1956 and during the rows over Brexit.

When the UK reaches crucial turning points does it turn, or do the key questions remain unresolved?

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Has The UK got a foreign policy? If so, what is it?