Originally Posted by
traveller42
The UK are more likely to have seen the actual intelligence that motivated this than the Germans, French or Dutch. Also the UK Prime Minister was previously home secretary and is towards the law-and-order / security / authoritarian end of the political spectrum. She might be expected to be particularly sympathetic to security arguments. An authorised briefing to the media is therefore particularly significant.
The UK relationship with the Saudis and (more so) the Emiratis and Jordanians -- I could go a lot into personal relationships of the ruling Arab cadre, but that's for elsewhere -- is rather different than the relationship of the Germans, Dutch and even the French with those Arabian Peninsula countries. So while the US gets more "intelligence" (than most European countries) from those Arab-majority countries, it's not because the US has any actual foreign-sourced intelligence on this to actually show the UK beyond that which the UK would get anyway regardless of the US.
I agree with you about what May is.