The bloc should move away from overreliance on US security guarantees, the UK prime minister has said

European NATO members must move from “overdependence” on the US and toward more autonomy and “hard power,” UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said. This comes as Washington has pressed the rest of the bloc to increase defense spending, and amid a transatlantic rift on a number of policies.

At the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Starmer is expected to argue that while “the US remains an indispensable ally,” Britain’s future rests on closer ties with European powers.

In a preview of the speech published by the prime minister’s office on…

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