When Sergei Lavrov attended a lunch with EU ambassadors last week, the Russian foreign minister could not resist making a joke at his hosts’ expense. Once Brexit was completed, Mr Lavrov quipped, “the EU will have only one vote left in the UN Security Council”.
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Former leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) Nigel Farage (rear C), arrives for a voting session at the European Parliament as French far-right party's Front National (FN) executive director Bruno Gollnisch (front R), and French far-right Front National (FN) party's founder, former leader and MP Jean-Marie Le Pen (front C) look on during the monthly session at the EU Parliament in Strasbourg, on July 5.
