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Trump’s strategy plan contains echoes of ‘extreme rightwing tropes’ from 1930s, former cabinet minister tells MPs<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n

The Trump security strategy paper contains language reminiscent of 1930s Germany, MPs were told.<\/p>\n

Liam Byrne<\/strong>, a former Labour<\/a> cabinet minister and the chair of the Commons business committee, made the suggestion as he said the shift in US policy meant it was even more important for the UK to strengthen economic security links with the EU.<\/p>\n

Speaking during the urgent question, he said:<\/p>\n

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<\/svg>The language of the US national security strategy was deeply regrettable and, frankly, it was not hard to see the rhymes with some extreme rightwing tropes that date back to the 1930s.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Byrne said the publication of the document coincided with talks on the UK joining the EU\u2019s Safe (Security Action for Europe) defence loans programme broke down. He said the government should adopt the recommendations in his committee\u2019s report on economic security<\/a>, and he said the UK should open talks with the EU on the sort of economic security union that could provide Europe with the growth \u201cthat rearmament is going to require\u201d.<\/p>\n

Byrne was clearly referring to 1930s Germany in his opening comment, and to Nazi thinking about racial purity. There are echoes of this in the new US national security strategy<\/a> where it talks about Europe facing \u201ccivilisational erasure\u201d in part because of migration. It says:<\/p>\n

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<\/svg>Economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure. The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.<\/p>\n

Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less \u2026<\/p>\n

Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain Nato members will become majority non-European.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In response, Malhotra<\/strong> said she agreed with Byrne that it was important for the UK to further develop its own defence capabilities.<\/p>\n

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<\/svg><\/span>Liam Byrne speaking in the Commons in the UQ on Trump\u2019s national security strategy<\/span> Photograph: HoC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n