‘We Can't Rely On The US’: How The Next PM Should Manage Donald Trump At Nato | Sir Simon Fraser

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“The relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom, although it is evolving and changing … We can't rely on the United States and the way that we used to.” Amid the Nato summit in Ankara and Donald Trump's rebukes of Western allies, the UK must learn to maintain diplomatic “distance” while building alternative defence alliances across Europe, says former permanent secretary at the Foreign Office and chair of Chatham House, Sir Simon Fraser. Sir Simon Fraser was speaking to John Pienaar on Times Radio Drive. Listen live every Monday to Thursday, 4-7pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/

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