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Mixed signals
Elizabethan era signalled a boost to ideas of Commonwealth to replace the Empire
- Gave an excuse for the government to miss a second (and third) opportunity to get re-involved with European integration
- Malayan emergency
- Funded a counter-insurgency aimed at Maoist backed Communist
- Kenyan Mau Mau
- Brutally suppressed rebellion that had targeted European settlers in Kenya
- Withdrawal from Egypt, Sudan and canal zone