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UK Labour ‘totally dedicated’ to Aukus pact
Daniel Hurst
The UK authorities would stay “fully committed” to the Aukus pact if Labour wins subsequent month’s election.
Labour – which enjoys a big lead within the opinion polls – launched its manifesto final evening. The part on the UK’s place on this planet consists of this passage:
Labour is totally dedicated to Aukus, the trilateral safety partnership with Australia and america. We are going to guarantee it delivers its full financial in addition to safety potential, growing jobs and funding in communities throughout the UK.
The manifesto additionally guarantees {that a} Labour within the UK would “bring a long-term and strategic approach to managing our relations” with China, including:
We are going to co-operate the place we will, compete the place we have to, and problem the place we should.
This has echoes of the Australian authorities’s chorus on China that “We will cooperate where we can, disagree where we must and engage in our national interest”.
The UK Labour occasion additionally says it’s “committed to recognising a Palestinian state as a contribution to a renewed peace process which results in a two-state solution with a safe and secure Israel alongside a viable and sovereign Palestinian state”.
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