Brexit has been a TRIUMPH! Here's the facts which prove the doomsayers wrong, says Marcus Gibson

When they thought about it they had to admit: Britain had created the modern world. Safe global trade; support for democracies, inventions such as the railways, the jet engine, the gas turbine that powers the world’s energy, and the fibre optic amplifier that drives the Internet - and the global language that is English.

But Brexit also made them ask another question: what was Britain’s impact now? In fact our influence is very deep and remarkably strong. In addition to military and economic power our legal and educational systems are renowned and copied worldwide. London is still the No1 international capital of the world - just as it was two centuries ago.

So David Miliband now thinks we’re now ‘low status’? That’s nonsense. Miliband and so many other British politicians have made a career out of talking down Britain. But luckily we British, and many millions around the world, know the truth.

When Ukraine was invaded it was Britain’s anti-tank missiles that helped defeat the Russians in those critical early days. France and Germany were incredibly slow – and reluctant – to help Ukraine.

It is Britain that has enjoyed closer relationships with all the smaller countries in Europe and many elsewhere in the world - and those nations will never forget it.

By contrast, France’s paltry influence is now restricted to bits of west Africa. Germany’s economy has been in freefall since Brexit because it became over-dependent on China and allowed itself to become totally dependent on Putin’s oil and gas. Angela Merkel said Brexit would be a failure – look at her reputation now.

London provides jobs for 400,000 French people – that’s 10 times more than the number of British people employed in France. France may be hosting the Olympics in September – but which country has bought more tickets than any other except the host nation – yes, it’s Britain, yet again. Second tier? I don’t think so.

In London lie many, if not most of the world’s very best international intellectual assets – all in a tiny area between Hammersmith and Tower Bridge.

Museums, galleries, universities, theatres, publishers, TV production houses, and not least the finance, insurance and shipping companies in the City of London, dominate their respective markets.

Years ago when the Euro was first introduced it was British lawyers, banks and regulators, not Europeans, who did the preparatory work.

And when a group of schoolchildren were trapped in a cave in Thailand, which country had the expertise to get them out, and all alive? Great Britain, of course.

Britain has also something precious that neither France nor Germany have – a huge number of world class small tech companies, many of them superior to anything in America. These play a major role in sectors such as space, biotech and electronics.

When Elon Musk’s rocket makes that incredible landing back on to the launch pad – who do you think made that happen – after dozens of failures – it was a software genius educated at Cambridge University.

When the EU was desperate for vaccines during Covid they discovered a small company in Yorkshire was the world leader in something called ‘nanoencapsulation’ – and no one, not even the Americans, couldn’t make vaccines without them.

Frankly, today, Brexit is a dead issue. Why? Because it has already proved to be an unrivalled success. UK exports are rising rapidly in non-EU markets – in North America, Middle East and Asia. They have doubled to nations such as Mexico, Egypt and Indonesia.

And if America won’t sign a trade deal with us.. no problem! We’ll just sign – as we have – trade deals with the American states of California, Texas and Virginia. Job done! Yet another first-tier success by a dynamically, and permanently, top-tier nation.