UK and Poland to sign new security and defence treaty

British prime minister Keir Starmer visited Poland on Friday to discuss border issues and military support for Warsaw.

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00:00The UK and Poland are to expand military cooperation, signing a new defence and security treaty.

00:08British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk in Warsaw

00:13on Friday to discuss NATO cooperation and support for Ukraine, among other things.

00:20Starmer expressed their intention to tighten cooperation on the Baltic and North Seas.

00:25The UK has secured £8 billion of defence deals in Poland over the last three years

00:31alone, and we're going further today, opening a new joint programme office in Bristol to

00:38deliver our £4 billion partnership, to deliver the next generation of air defence system

00:44to Poland.

00:46Starmer also visited the site of Nazi German extermination camp Auschwitz, voicing his

00:51quote sheer horror at what he saw.

00:55He vowed to fight growing anti-Semitism in the world due to the Israel-Hamas war, which

01:00is causing fears to rise among the Jewish community in Britain.