Andy Burnham should publicly offer to provide a nuclear umbrella over Europe if he becomes the UK’s next leader, a top European diplomat told The i Paper.
Wolfgang Ischinger, the former German ambassador to the UK and US, who is now chairman of the Munich Security Conference, said the next prime minister should join France in publicly offering nuclear capabilities for the European continent – including, long-term, Ukraine.
The UK and France are the only two European countries to have sovereign nuclear weapons. French President Emmanuel Macron said earlier this year that he was willing to discuss providing a nuclear umbrella for the continent.
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“I think if these two nuclear powers could put together and make that kind of a statement together, that would be my dream,” Ischinger said.
