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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Sam Kiley

Starmer has grasped what his predecessors would not – that Britain is better off in Europe than with the US

Keir Starmer is announcing a pivot away from America and towards Europe in the most radical shift in British foreign policy for decades – resetting the UK’s place in a world that will diminish America’s power.

There will be consternation in some quarters of the nation’s armed forces, particularly the Special Forces, but ending the junior partner status of Britain under the US puts an end to the fantasy of the “special relationship”.

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