Sir Keir Starmer said Europe must build a common security framework as he warned the change in its defence relationship with the US was permanent and ‘not an aberration of the Trump presidency’.
In his first major intervention since leaving Downing Street, the former prime minister warned that ‘things will not go back to the way they were’ as America makes clear that it will no longer ‘bankroll’ its allies on the continent.
Speaking at the British Irish Chamber of Commerce dinner in Dublin on Friday, he argued that Europe needed a ‘common security framework as much as a common market’ with
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