London | Prime Minister Keir Starmer swept to power promising to raise living standards and grow the British economy. But now his premiership has an urgent and altogether different focus: preserving European security in a volatile world order upended by US President Donald Trump.
Starmer’s commitment to increase defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2027 and rising to 3 per cent over the next decade – funded by cutting the aid budget – is the latest fallout from the shockwave of Trump’s apparent refusal for the US to be the final guarantor of security in Europe.
