Britain must pay its “fair share” into an EU defence fund worth €150 billion if UK arms companies are to benefit from European rearmament, Keir Starmer has been warned
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/uk-must-pay-into-eu-rearmament-fund-to-benefit-from-it-qcppsss7n
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/uk-must-pay-into-eu-rearmament-fund-to-benefit-from-it-qcppsss7n
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Commitment to *European security* is not a partisan issue.
The UK will sign a defence and security agreement with the EU in May and participate in ReArm, rendering discussion this moot.
Johnson also led the supply of lethal aid to Ukraine.
That is supporting European security.
Farage and Corbyn wouldn't have, but neither have been in power, and that sections of both hard left & hard right fail to recognise Russia as a threat is common across Europe.
We will get there again eventually.
We might even get a European armed forces capability. Fully integrated etc.
Europe wouldn’t have got to this point on internal politics alone.
If the UK agrees to spend a similar amount to buy arms in the EU then I see no reason to not buy arms from the UK.
Like the UK, the EU needs to generate wealth.
That could perhaps be said of any country, but the UK has already left the EU.
As does the US and UK to honour agreements they entered into to defend Ukraine after they agreed to remove their nuclear arsenal.
#BrexitShambles
#TheLiesHaveIt
Wouldn't this be true even if we were still in the EU?
Let's stop inventing stuff when it's already obvious we should have never left.
Or will he go for appeasement?