Rory Stewart

Is that why you're defending it?

No, I agree with you.

He should not be talking like a podcaster.

He shouldn't be doing his love actually moment.

But I think that Carney and Macron certainly...

And even Mertz have demonstrated and Stubb was demonstrating how you can do this without blowing up the transnational.

And you need to because there's a big strategic call that Starmer needs to make now, which I'm afraid he's fluffing.

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.