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Nato, nukes and a new cold war
In the second of his three-part series on how the new Labour government’s foreign policy is likely to shape up, KENNY COYLE examines David Lammy’s writings on Asia and the Indo-Pacific region – where the risk of military flashpoints is high
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DAVID LAMMY praises Ernest Bevin for his key role in the early years of the cold war.

He says that Bevin: “brought us the Nato alliance that is still the bedrock of our security and fought for a nuclear bomb as he put it with the Union Jack on top. A deterrent that remains a key element of Britain’s foreign and security policy today.”

The reality, of course, is that Britain’s “independent” nuclear forces are almost entirely dependent on the Stars and Stripes rather than the “Butcher’s Apron,” and Nato’s military command structure, rather than its toothless political one, has been under continued US control since 1949.

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