Labour’s Doomed Pivot Toward Europe

When the British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves was asked by the Times last week to choose between Donald Trump and Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Commission, she replied without a moment’s hesitation: “Ursula von der Leyen.” “I believe that our future is closely intertwined with Europe,” she added. Take that, MAGA man. You might have expected Reeves to have given a rather more diplomatic answer, given that the American president is the effective boss of NATO and her leader, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, has been trying to secure a comprehensive trade deal with the…