Brexit allowed Britain to lead the West in support for Ukraine. Now we must use that freedom to dodge tariffs by convincing Trump we are a reliable partner in defence, says James Price

Having served in government through some of the Brexit negotiations, and seen up close how completely bonkers everyone was driven by it, I am reluctant to ever have to write about it again. Truly, you wouldn’t believe some of the mania it induced in people who had presumably once been rational.

One night we had to create a rota for members of the House of Lords to attend through the night, with many bringing in sleeping bags, while the division bells rang into the small hours. Arcane rules were used to effect a filibuster like some Lordly groundhog day.

But having apparently felt that everything is just fine on the domestic front – with our economy roaring, borders secure and social fabric definitely not fraying by the day – Sir Keir Starmer decided to jet to Brussels to attend a meeting of EU leaders.

This was, by my count, Starmer’s 18th visit abroad since entering Downing Street. His only major........

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