Starmer urges UK and Europe to unite on defence as US role shifts

Former prime minister Keir Starmer told a Dublin business audience that the UK and Europe must draw closer because the shift in US policy under Donald Trump is a permanent change, not an aberration. He called for a pan-European common security framework alongside a common market, with Europe taking far more responsibility for its own defence. The proposal points to growing momentum for coordinated European military and strategic capacity, a structural step that is still a call for cooperation rather than a settled political union.