Trump’s dismantling of the US foreign aid programme (the US Agency for International Development) founded by President Kennedy is a gratuitously inhuman action that experts in the field tell us will endanger the health and lives of millions around the world.
An example of our government’s sad approach to Trump was provided last week when it insulted President Macron and others by siding with Trump’s team and not our fellow Europeans over signing the agreement for sensible regulation of what has become known as AI – that is, the UK did not sign!.
Our government goes on ad nauseam about “growth” but Keir Starmer, once a prominent remainer, while promulgating the need to “reset” our relations with the European Union, continues to frolic in the margins and go on about those fatuous “red lines” – no customs union or single market, just attempts at cherrypicking which are non-starters in Brussels.
It should also be obvious that the UK must play a major role in building Europe’s response to the abrogation by Trump of America’s hitherto enlightened approach.
It is obvious to us Europeans that we should fill the gap, in everything from foreign aid to the financing of Nato, that Trump’s arrival is creating.
