Keep us safe
WITH the polls as they are, Labour’s stance on our defence becomes of huge significance.
The omens are not good.
Rishi Sunak’s historic commitment to increase military spending to 2.5 per cent of our GDP by 2030 is vital, but of little relevance unless the probable NEXT Government follows suit.
Why hasn’t it?
That 2.5 per cent remains a mere aspiration for Labour “when circumstances allow”.
That’s no longer good enough.
Nothing matters more — nothing — than keeping Britain safe from the rising menace of Russia and China, not to mention Iran and North Korea.
Finances MUST allow for it.
If other budgets have to be cut, or pledges abandoned, Labour must prepare to do it.
On defence its recent record is dismal.
Only four years ago it tried to install as Prime Minister a peacenik hippie who liked, shall …