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THE idea that public opinion has little or no impact on British foreign policy is a common view, even held by some on the left.
For example, writing on the New Left Project website in 2012, University of Westminster academic John Brissenden concluded:
“The idea of public opinion … having any influence over” Afghan policy and other British military interventions is “a convenient myth.”

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