UK must seize chance to repair relations with EU, says thinktank head

Director of Chatham House says Britain's role in Ukraine crisis is an opportunity to work more formally with Brussels

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Britain should use its leading role in the Ukraine war urgently to repair its relations with the EU by offering to help strengthen European security both via Nato and rapidly evolving EU defence plans, the director of Chatham House, Dr Robin Niblett, has proposed.

That will require working more formally with Brussels on foreign policy and defence, including issues such as cyber, intelligence and disinformation, said Niblett, who heads Britain's leading foreign policy thinktank.