United States Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, described the US' relationship with the UK "stronger today than ever before" whilst meeting with Defence Secretary John Healey during a meeting in Washington DC. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00It's great to see you.
00:01It's wonderful to meet you for the first time in Brussels and have some great interactions
00:07about our mutual interests, no doubt.
00:09And your Prime Minister, it was a privilege to meet him as well when he was here last
00:11week.
00:13Our nations, as you know, share a long and special relationship, stronger today than
00:19ever before.
00:20I experienced that firsthand myself, as many of our generation has, on the battlefield.
00:26We are in the middle of a dynamic security environment, where on that continent, President
00:30Trump is calling on our European allies to take the lead, and you have done just that,
00:35sir.
00:36It's great to be back in Washington, and it's good to see you again.
00:40We last met last month in NATO, and then you challenged Europe to step up.
00:52You challenged us to step up on Ukraine, on defence spending, on European security,
00:59and I say to you that we have, we are, and we will further.
01:06And last week, the British Prime Minister announced the biggest increase in defence
01:10spending since the end of the Cold War, and we will go further.