The prime minister’s speech to the Munich Security Conference was a serious statement of intent for an ambitious post-Brexit EU-UK security relationship. The Munich speech developed the idea, floated by the prime minister in her Florence Brexit speech of September 2017, that a “security treaty” should be an integral part of the “deep and special” partnership with the EU sought by the UK government. However, a foreign, security and defence policy relationship with the EU is just one element of the broader issue of what the UK’s international ambitions should be post-Brexit. Yet the government has so far failed to provide little more than the rhetoric of “Global Britain” to describe the ambitions for the UK’s foreign and security policy post-Brexit. A report published today,…

Source: The Times February 26, 2018 00:04 UTC