Whatever one thinks of Brexit, industrial goods were always the area where it made least sense for Britain to go it alone. And now that it’s clear Europe can no longer rely on America, deepening cooperation on defence production is a no-brainer, says Will Cooling

It has only been four weeks since Donald Trump’s second presidency began, and already it feels like we’re living in a very different world. Whether it’s picking fights with its closest neighbours over trade and territory, unilaterally entering into negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine, or repeatedly endorsing the British and European far-right, this is a very different America to the one that proudly called itself the “indispensable nation”.

So provocative was the behaviour of Trump’s administration at the Munich Security Conference that, yesterday, Britain and European leaders met for an emergency summit in Paris; the geopolitical........

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