Excerpts from her speech to com:

  • will say it is time to end “strategic dependence” on hostile and authoritarian states, including a departure from using Russian energy.
  • will also argue that allies must strengthen deterrence by spending more on defence and Nato, warning that the “era of complacency is over”.
  • will add: “The invasion of Ukraine is a paradigm shift on the scale of 9/11
  • “How we respond today will set the pattern for this new era.

more to come

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