Rory Stewart

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Maybe let's move it off Starmer.

And I was thinking about this talking to the Canadians yesterday.

Let's say we want in five, 10 years to create a situation in which we have a rectangular world where the four corners are US, China, global south.

The Rectangle of Power.

So let's say it's The Rectangle of Power, where the US is actually separate from Europe, UK, Canada, Japan, South Korea, right?

Australia.

Put them all together, you've got enormous economies.

Put those a lot together, actually, the economy's larger than the US, larger than China, if they can coordinate.

So let's say those economies want to reduce their dependence on China and the US.

critical minerals, and independence, right?

Independent sovereign control of critical minerals, quantum, AI, cloud computing, satellite, ISR, ballistic missiles, financial payment systems, debt, right?

How would we do that architecture?

What kind of leadership would we be looking for?

It's a huge shift.

I keep coming back to this very, very weird moment where

Europe and the UK didn't manage to get their defense agreement together.

So a lot of Starmer's speeches about it.

It came down to the fact that Europe wanted the UK to pay a few billion and the UK thought it was too much.