Keir Starmer needs you: Britain readies for war
On Monday, the prime minister, Keir Starmer, told Britain it was facing threats that were 'more serious, more immediate and more unpredictable than at any time since the cold war'.
It was time, he said, to make Britain a 'battle-ready, armour-clad nation'.
As the government publishes its strategic defence review, the former Guardian security editor Richard Norton-Taylor tells Helen Pidd there are still serious questions over whether Britain is ready for this new era.
Is the government willing to spend enough to see Starmer's vision through? And even if it does, can we be sure the Ministry of Defence will concentrate its resources on the right things?
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