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Healey, who took up the post in July following his Labour Party’s landslide election victory under Prime Minister Keir Starmer, met allies this month at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Germany. During that trip he described it as “the right time” to revisit the treaty with France, and said he was “confident that the French will want to take that degree of cooperation further.”
He said the push represented “exactly what we said before the election, that we would be a government that would reset Britain’s relations with Europe and especially with the leading European nations.”
Soon after taking office, Starmer said he wanted to forge “a new approach” to the U.K.’s relationship with Europe, including opening a brand new security pact with the EU.
The Anglo-French declaration signed by then Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2010 — known as Lancaster House — committed the two nations to closer working between their armed forces and on the development of military equipment.
An update would focus on tightening cooperation between the countries in light of Russian hostility, according to two officials familiar with the plans, timed to coincide with the agreement’s 15th anniversary.
One of those officials, granted anonymity to speak about sensitive matters, described the plan as part of a wider drive to recognize the “heightened role of defense within diplomacy” as well as fitting into Starmer’s desired reset of EU relations.
