Skip to main contentSkip to navigation Close dialogue1/1 Next image Previous image Toggle captionSkip to navigation Donald Trump and Keir Starmer at Chequers last September. ‘We have seen in so many ways how the Trump administration can react very, very strongly to small things that people say,’ Bronwen Maddox said. Photograph: Leon Neal/Reuters View image in fullscreen Donald Trump and Keir Starmer at Chequers last September. ‘We have seen in so many ways how the Trump administration can react very, very strongly to small things that people say,’ Bronwen Maddox said. Photograph: Leon Neal/Reuters End of western alliance means UK must be bolder, says Chatham House directorBronwen Maddox says Trump’s rejection of international law leaves UK and Europe facing huge dilemma Donald Trump has ended the western alliance, requiring the UK to adopt a bolder, more independent foreign policy towards the US and China, the director of Britain’s most prestigious foreign policy thinktank has said.Delivering her analysis in her annual lecture, Bronwen Maddox, the director of Chatham House, said: “The risk of staying silent and not standing up for the principles that have underpinned the liberal international order is that those principles do indeed become an article of history and not the foundation of the world we want to live in.”She added: “The UK has performed a balancing act of…
Published: January 13, 2026 6:00 pm
Source: The Guardian — Read original