As the second Trump term looms in the near distance, it’s become a bit of a cliché to say that ‘a stopped clock is right twice a day’. Pinko liberal Nats like myself have had to get used to the fact that for all our disagreements with the man on policy and style, there are certain areas where we fundamentally agree.
Most prominently, it was after all Dòmhnall Iain (as his first cousins on Lewis would call him) who first really grasped the systemic challenge posed by China to Western states in his first term. As a member of the Inter Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), it was with a wry smile that we noticed the quiet acquiescence of the Biden administration on that front even as it rolled back other Trump foreign policies.
It will be interesting therefore to see if there is a wider recognition among our political class that behind Trump’s braggadocio on Greenland there lies an implicit rebuke of UK and European security policy.
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