Keir Starmer

We're 10 years on from Brexit.

We are not the Britain of the Brexit years.

We're a Britain that wants to work with the EU even more closely.

We're not giving up.

We're 10 years on from Brexit.

We are not the Britain of the Brexit years.

We're a Britain that wants to work with the EU even more closely.

U.K.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer says Europe has to shift from over-dependence on the U.S.

towards a more European NATO.

And that should be underpinned, he says, by deeper links between the U.K.

and European Union, despite Brexit.

Starmer says this moment isn't about U.S.

withdrawal as much as, quote, answering the call for more burden sharing.

Downing Street says British companies already account for more than a quarter of the continent's defense industrial base.

And the prime minister's office says the U.K.

is scaling up.

spending nearly $550 million this year on new stealth missiles with France and Italy and hypersonic weapons research with Germany.

Lauren Freyer, NPR News, London.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he regrets appointing Epstein's friend Peter Mandelson as ambassador and told Parliament... Mr Speaker, I've accepted responsibility and apologised for the mistakes that I made.