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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he would act in the country's interest, whatever the "noise", when asked about US President Donald Trump saying he was considering pulling the United States out of NATO due to the poor cooperation from the alliance in the war with Iran.

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00:18Firstly NATO is the single most effective military alliance the world has ever seen
00:24and it has kept us safe for many decades and we are fully committed to NATO secondly that
00:32whatever the pressure on me and others whatever the noise I'm going to act in the British national
00:41interest in all the decisions that I make and that's why I've been absolutely clear that this
00:45is not our war and we're not going to get dragged into it it is increasingly clear that as the
00:51world
00:52continues down this volatile path our long-term national interest requires closer partnership
00:59with our allies in Europe and with the European Union now we have made progress on this front
01:07on agriculture electricity emissions trading and more it's in our interest to have a strong
01:15relationship with the US and with Europe but I do think that when it comes to defense and security
01:20energy emissions in the economy we need a stronger relationship with Europe I actually think that
01:26will help strengthen our relationship with the US because successive presidents have said that Europe
01:33needs to do more on their defense and security I've long argued that with European colleagues that we
01:39should be doing more and that's not just for example on defense spend although it is on defense spend it's
01:47also on how we spend how we collaborate cooperate cooperation on defense secure I think there's no doubt
01:54unfortunately after this conflict is is concluded we are going to have to re-examine that relationship we're going to
02:00have to
02:01re-examine the value of NATO and that alliance for our country ultimately that's a decision for the president to
02:05make and he'll have to make it we're going to finish the job here as I said we're very very
02:09close to achieving our objectives on all of these things that I've outlined but I do think unfortunately we are
02:15going to have to re-examine
02:16and whether or not this alliance that has served this country well for for a while is still serving that
02:21purpose or is it now become a
02:23one-way street where America is simply in a position to defend Europe but when we need the help of
02:28our allies they're going to deny us basing rights and they're going to deny us overflight
02:34and as far as NATO's concerned that's a decision that will be left to the president but I'll just say
02:39a lot has been laid bare a lot has been shown to the world about what our allies would be
02:45willing to do
02:45for the United States of America when we undertake an effort of this scope on behalf of the free world
02:51these are missiles that don't even range the United States of America they range allies and others
02:56and and yet when we ask for additional assistance or simple access basing overflight we get questions
03:03or roadblocks or hesitations and the president's pointing out you don't have much of an uh an alliance
03:10if you have countries that are not willing to stand with you when you need them he's simply pointing that
03:14out uh and ultimately it'll be his decision of what that looks like after this is complete and I think
03:19the president was clear this morning in his truth that that there are countries around the world
03:25who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well it's not just the United States
03:31Navy last time I checked there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to
03:36do
03:36things like that as well so he's pointing out this is an international waterway that we use less than
03:40most in fact dramatically less than most so the world ought pay attention to be prepared to stand up
03:45President Trump's been willing to do the heavy lifting on behalf of the free world to address this
03:49threat of Iran uh it's not just our problem set going forward even though we have done
03:54the lion's share of preparation to ensure that that straight will be will be open which is an
03:58outcome uh the the president's been very clear on adversaries Russia China North Korea
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