The Daily T: Why Labour can't be trusted to defend Britain
The Strategic Defence Review is out. Designed to be a root and branch look at all aspects of Britain's armed forces, and billed by Labour as a 'message to Moscow', the message no doubt reaching the Kremlin is – Keir Starmer doesn't have a clue what he's doing.
First of all, the Prime Minister had an 'ambition' of raising defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP in the next parliament. Then Defence Secretary John Healey said last week that it was no longer an 'ambition' but 'a certainty'. Then when he did the broadcast rounds on Sunday he downgraded it back again to an 'ambition', which was echoed by Starmer in his press conference this morning.
And with the authors of the review writing in The Daily Telegraph today saying that their recommendations were costed on the certainty of a 3 per cent spending boost, Camilla and Gordon explain why Labour can't be trusted to defend Britain, a point that's been brought into even sharper focus with a record 1200 small boat crossings on Saturday.
Elsewhere, Chief Reporter Robert Mendick fills us in on the story of Hamit Coskun; the 50 year old Turkish asylum seeker who's been convicted of a public order offence after setting fire to a copy of the Koran.
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