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Placate or retaliate? Starmer and Carney are both right on Trump

The long goodbye to the US-led world order means leaders must tread carefully

Philip Stephens

The ‘special relationship’ has underpinned the UK’s security since the Suez Canal debacle — but the world has changed

But Keir Starmer needs his government to show an organising purpose that has been absent so far

As the international order cracks, the nation’s capabilities must adjust to a new world

Whatever the outcome in November, governments will have to take more responsibility for their own security