[jfman]

I think you underestimate the extent Brexit will induce negative sentiment towards anything that even remotely looks like a European army. People voted for Britain to forge its own path in the world and explore trade deals elsewhere. Trump dangles that carrot and Starmer knocks it back for his European buddies and the Conservatives and Reform will be all over him.

We have NATO for our security and despite a lot of scaremongering there is no indication, anywhere, that NATO wouldn’t come to the aid of a member state when (and perhaps more importantly if) required.