Starmer enhances labor manifesto to face Europe’s new reality
A big moment and a big decision, ahead of a big meeting.
Government announced This will crank defense spending and reduce international assistance budget Amount for a big innings in strategy, posture and political situation.
Take a look at the election manifesto of the labor party, less than a year ago, if you want proof of this.
On page 125, it says: “Labor is committed to restoring the development expenses, as soon as fiscal conditions allow, at 0.7 percent of the gross national income.”
The party is now committed to the exact opposite – cutting the development expenses from the same amount that it promised to increase it.
There is nothing for an adjacent visit to an outspoken US President and the White House to intensify the mind – and O Perusto, came with the announcement that the Prime Minister packed his shirt for his visit in Atlantic .
Also, the thumbs from the Trump administration did not come after a long time.
But it is also true that for some time and for many parties there is a growing belief that more money was to be spent on defense.
The Prime Minister has taken to remember that the wall of Berlin is coming down. “It felt as if we were closing the hut of history, united by freedom and democracy,” as he says – on the contrary that with the reality of the invasion of Russia’s Ukraine.
A comprehensive criticism with these lines has been crystallized for some time: it was a holiday that was a holiday from the history of the 1990s, as Jonathan Freedland called itAnd the end of the Cold War created a peace dividend where the defense budget could have atrophy and for example, money could be spent on hospitals and schools.
Instead, there is not only a war in Europe, a living in the White House, which is very low for the American security umbrella, this continent has trusted since the World War Two.
It is a little surprising that, we have seen a blitz of gitlers in European capitals because the President and the Prime Minister try to do what it can mean or not.
Starmer facing work – The second strand of the European tag team of leaders to visit Washington after President Emmanuel Macron on Monday is to try to mold the position of President Donald Trump.
In the coming weeks and months, what a deal can be done where the war stops, Ukraine does not feel defeated, Europe does not feel and transatlantic relations are as possible as traditional?
It will not be easy.
The Prime Minister has a visit to the White House, but has a building block to develop answers to these questions.
And then, at the end of the next week, Starmer will host a gathering of European leaders to reflect where the conversation so far has taken us.
President Volodimier Zelansky is also expected to be in Washington.
The next few weeks can prove to be important.
