Bangladesh, May 3 -- In a significant development for post-Brexit Europe, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in London late last month to chart a new course for UK-EU relations. Their meeting served as a crucial preparatory step for a larger summit scheduled this month, where London and Brussels aim to formalize a comprehensive security and defense pact.

The road to this point has been a long and complicated one. Since the 2016 referendum, in which a majority of British voters opted to leave the European Union, political leaders on both sides of the Channel have wrestled with the evolving nature of their relationship. While the UK officially left the EU in 2020, Brexits afterma...