A former Nato secretary general has warned that Britain’s military reliance on the US is “no longer tenable”, and the UK should not expect relations with Washington to return to their previous state – even after Donald Trump leaves office.
In his second attack on the government’s defence policy in less than two weeks, Lord George Robertson – a former Labour defence secretary who was appointed by the prime minister to write the government’s Strategic Defence Review (SDR) – hit out at Britain’s “naive belief” that the US would “always be there” in times of crisis, saying such a mentality has diminished the UK’s capabilities.
