The United Kingdom will remain a world power and a close ally of the United States in the aftermath of the vote to leave the European Union, the U.K. ambassador reassured Americans Sunday.

“We’re not going to disappear from the world stage,” Kim Darroch said on ABC’s “This Week.” “We will still be important players and America’s closest allies.”

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