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Justice secretary said there is a ‘moral case’ for getting people into work when asked about the chancellor’s reported plansSir David Manning told the Lords committee that he thought the UK would have to start looking “elsewhere” because of the state of relations with the US.Responding to the question about whether the special relationship exists, he said:I agree that there’s obviously been a very important relationship … and a special relationship with the United States. I confess that I don’t always like the term, not because it isn’t special, but because I think it’s made us lazy … I think that means we don’t have to look elsewhere, which I think is relevant to this morning’s discussion, because I think we are going to have to look elsewhere.A fundamental difference in our relationship with the United States from our other partners is that we depend on them for our defence.It is very difficult to imagine what we’re going to do to defend ourselves, if, for example – this is very hypothetical – the Trump administration decides that it’s going to end our nuclear cooperation deal, or if Trump moves out of Nato, or even becomes just so equivocal about Nato that the article five guarantee is no longer plausible.The question I think we have to ask is, to what extent is the United States, as now configured, going to remain interested and committed to the defence of Europe, as opposed to United States being part of a slightly different international order whereby it’s the big guys, China, Russia, United States who get what they want, and the smaller countries have to, if you like, quoting a phrase from Thucydides, ‘suffer what they must’. And I don’t think we yet know the answer. Continue reading...
Justice secretary said there is a ‘moral case’ for getting people into work when asked about the chancellor’s reported plans
Sir David Manning told the Lords committee that he thought the UK would have to start looking “elsewhere” because of the state of relations with the US.
Responding to the question about whether the special relationship exists, he said:
I agree that there’s obviously been a very important relationship … and a special relationship with the United States. I confess that I don’t always like the term, not because it isn’t special, but because I think it’s made us lazy … I think that means we don’t have to look elsewhere, which I think is relevant to this morning’s discussion, because I think we are going to have to look elsewhere.
A fundamental difference in our relationship with the United States from our other partners is that we depend on them for our defence.
It is very difficult to imagine what we’re going to do to defend ourselves, if, for example – this is very hypothetical – the Trump administration decides that it’s going to end our nuclear cooperation deal, or if Trump moves out of Nato, or even becomes just so equivocal about Nato that the article five guarantee is no longer plausible.
The question I think we have to ask is, to what extent is the United States, as now configured, going to remain interested and committed to the defence of Europe, as opposed to United States being part of a slightly different international order whereby it’s the big guys, China, Russia, United States who get what they want, and the smaller countries have to, if you like, quoting a phrase from Thucydides, ‘suffer what they must’. And I don’t think we yet know the answer. Continue reading...
