Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:40 pm on 16 July 2018.
We have said that we will have an independent foreign and defence policy, and that there will be occasions when we co-operate with the European Union on those matters, just as there are occasions when we co-operate on a bilateral basis with individual countries in Europe, for example, the very good co-operation that we have with France on defence matters, and the co-operation that we now have with some of the Nordic states on the Joint Expeditionary Force. We will ensure that we do what is in our national interests and the interests of maintaining European security.