Is the UK multinational An editor had added the adjective multinational to the description of the UK and provided supporting references This was reverted without explanation so I re added I see no reason why this material should have been removed but would be interested in other views Cheers I ve removed it I think it s deeply confusing to have it in the very first sentence multinational has a number of different meanings and the most common interpretation is not really the one we intend here it evokes images of a company which operates in several different countries etc We already explain the unusual one country made of several countries thing in the lead I don t think we need to put it so prominently and in such a potentially ambiguous way talk