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The foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper<\/a>, has accused Reform UK and the Green party of undermining Britain\u2019s commitment to Nato.<\/p>\n Cooper was speaking at the Munich Security Conference, where Keir Starmer used a speech at the weekend<\/a> to claim that Labour\u2019s populist rivals, Reform and the Greens, were \u201csoft on Russia and weak on Nato\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cOur national security depends on us having partnerships abroad that make us strong and we have seen both Reform and the Greens undermine that commitment to the Nato<\/a> alliance,\u201d Cooper said in an interview with Sky News.<\/p>\n In the case of Nigel Farage\u2019s party, Cooper said this had led to Reform \u201cnot taking seriously the threat from Russia\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThey have refused to have an investigation into Russian interference in their own party despite the fact that their own Welsh leader was convicted of links to Russia,\u201d she added, referring to the jailing of Nathan Gill<\/a>, the former MEP and colleague of Farage, for taking bribes from a suspected Russian asset to repeat pro-Kremlin positions.<\/p>\n \u201cThey have too often dismissed the aggression and the threat from Russia even at the point where we have seen lethal poisons being used again as it was in Salisbury,\u201d she said, in an apparent reference to Russia\u2019s use of poisons that killed Dawn Sturgess<\/a> in the English city in 2018 and, according to a new statement released by Britain and others, to murder Alexei Navalny<\/a>, the Russian opposition leader.<\/p>\n