Brexit Britain’s Nato strategy is fatally flawed | Martin Kettle

Theresa May wants to engage with our European neighbours to secure our defences, but her government’s most pressing policy is to shun themThe phrase, in different forms, is as familiar as any in politics. “The first duty of government is to protect the security of the country and its people.” All prime ministers of all parties say words of this kind. All of them mean it. And in most cases the words weigh on them, too, because however pompous they sometimes sound, they are true.