UK-EU security and foreign policy ties will weaken, says Macron ally

MEP Nathalie Loiseau speaks out amid bafflement in Brussels over Boris Johnson's global Britain' ambitions

The UK will have weaker ties with the European Union on foreign and security policy, an ally of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has said, amid bafflement in Brussels over Boris Johnson's global Britain" ambitions.

Nathalie Loiseau, Macron's former Europe minister, who now chairs the European parliament's security and defence subcommittee, told the Guardian that EU-UK foreign policy cooperation would decline in key areas, including some intelligence-sharing, military operations and the Galileo satellite system.