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After the Brexit referendum, British Conservative governments opted for a “global” strategy, turning their backs on the European Union (EU) if not Europe, and promising a return to being a world power. However, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Donald Trump’s re-election to the White House have forced successive governments to refocus on Euro-Atlantic security and to draw closer to their traditional European partners, both bilaterally, multilaterally, within the EU and NATO, and ad hoc (with the European Political Community and the coalition of the willing for Ukraine. In courting the US president in an effort to maintain his engagement with Ukraine, Keir Starmer paradoxically comes close to the other Europeans, who follow the same tactic. Hence Britain’s strategic weakening following Brexit is mitigated.