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Britain is world's 2nd superpower, says neoconservative think tank
A report by the Henry Jackson Society puts Britain behind the US and ahead of Russia and China
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BRITAIN is more powerful than Russia and China, coming second in a study of global power.

The finding comes in a new report by a neoconservative think tank, the Henry Jackson Society.

Only the US was found to outclass Britain, and is the world’s sole “superpower.”

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