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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Bethan McKernan Wales correspondent

Wales’s first minister calls on Keir Starmer to halt US-UK space defence project

Eluned Morgan.
The Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability programme is located in Eluned Morgan’s Senedd constituency. Photograph: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images

Wales’s first minister has called on Keir Starmer to suspend a big joint defence project with the US, saying that under Donald Trump the country is “not the partner it once was”.

In a statement on Wednesday, Labour’s Eluned Morgan cited the US president’s “contempt” towards the UK and his threat to “annihilate” Iran as reasons to halt the development of the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (Darc) programme in Pembrokeshire, part of the Aukus defence partnership between the UK, US and Australia.

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