Rory Stewart

If he's not able to be clear about it in a speech at Munich, I don't think he can be clear about it in the cabinet table or the NSC.

What is his view?

What is he telling the British?

What's he telling us about the future of our intelligence relationship with the US?

What's he telling British industry about how much we should be creating an economy built on American cloud computing, American AI?

What's he saying about how much American defense equipment we should be buying?

What's he saying about how command and control in NATO works?

What's he saying about what kind of deals we should have with China?

What's the big view?

We know what Carney's view is.

We can see what Macron's view is, even if he's struggling to deliver it.

And above all, the only hope for the middle powers is if they get together.

They begin to develop and share a joint philosophy.

Nothing is less useful than the middle powers sniping at each other and saying, oh, I slightly disagree with your speech.

I don't think it's quite like this.

I mean, it's a real civil servant speech.

It's, well, you know, on the one hand, on the other.

And, you know, yes, some things are changing, but we still want to renew.

I'm not interested in standing up to Trump.

I'm interested in how he remains in lockstep with Carney, Macron and Metz.