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Alistair Campbell

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The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

And so they're going to share the production.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

and then share the use of electricity produced by wind.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

But then I think if you look at stuff like defence, I mean...

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

We were talking to some people out there who were making the point that we talk about our independent nuclear deterrent.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

Now, France has a genuinely independent nuclear deterrent.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

We don't.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

We are reliant on America for firing these missiles, for servicing these missiles.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

So would we, in part of this Mark Carney middle power, actually think about

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

Does France become European nuclear defense?

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

Does Britain kind of straddle between Europe and the US?

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

And if so, how does that mean changes that have to be made to our systems?

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

Okay.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

And how well is that going?

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

Look, if you look at the Ukraine war and how that has been handled, and I think what's happening at the moment is the European leaders who recognize that they alone cannot necessarily, particularly given their economic and political circumstances, run the whole fight.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

So they need America.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

to be part of it, particularly in relation to intelligence and the stuff that Ukraine cannot do on its own and cannot do without.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

So what the European leaders have been doing, they've been doing a little bit of the Rota strategy.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

to keep them on board, but at the same time, building up their own defenses and then saying, we're only doing that because Trump bullied us into doing it.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

Okay.

The Rest Is Politics
494. Carney’s Trump Fightback and the Starmer-Burnham Fallout

I think they've all worked out.