Starmer warns against ‘over-reliance’ on US and urges closer UK ties to Europe

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Starmer warns against ‘over-reliance’ on US and urges closer UK ties to Europe

Marco Rubio’s speech at Europe’s biggest security conference was greeted with cautious relief.

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Even though he attacked Europeans for not doing enough to stop mass migration, he ultimately concluded that America and Europe "belong together". Contrast that with last year when Vice President Vance shook the transatlantic relationship.

But the conference also revealed that the Russian Opposition leader Alexei Navalny was killed after being poisoned with dart frog toxin. A substance described as 200 times stronger than morphine. European leaders blame the Kremlin.

While the UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, used the Munich Security Conference to signal a willingness for the UK to have a closer defence relationship with EU nations, saying we are not the Britain of the Brexit years anymore.

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Date: February 14, 2026