Sir Keir says the nation is on a war footing as of now but it cannot take decades before we are ready to fight one
ON the face of it, there is good news in Labour's Strategic Defence Review.
Up to 12 submarines to head off threats from Russia at sea.
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New weapons and munitions factories to replace those stocks depleted by donations to Ukraine.
But will the billions needed to pay for all these new fighter jets, drones and hi-tech weaponry actually be found?
Defence chiefs say it will take investment of three per cent of GDP.
Yet Keir Starmer yesterday refused to put a timeline on achieving that.
By 2027 it will still be only 2.5 per cent — when experts say we need five per cent to re-arm properly.
If the Prime Minister has doubts about where to find the cash, he could try diverting money from less pressing areas — like binning Net Zero and free hotels for migrants.
A pity, too, that his Government is handing Mauritius £30billion on top of surrendering the Chagos Islands.
At the very least, the PM's uncertainty also throws the delivery time of new projects into doubt.
New subs, for example, already won't be serviceable until the late 2030s.
Sir Keir says the nation is on a war footing as of now.
Starmer 'loses control' as over 1,000 migrants cross Channel in biggest daily total of 2025 – as French cops watch on
But it cannot take decades before we are ready to actually fight one.
Stand up, PM
WHY isn't Britain among a group of nine European countries calling for urgent reform of the European Court of Human Rights?
Successive UK Governments have found themselves powerless to deport foreign rapists, murderers and drug-dealers because of rulings handed down in Strasbourg, while the number of illegal migrant crossings this year is likely to top 50,000.
The Prime Minister says he is 'angry' about this.
But seemingly not enough to join the likes of Italy and Denmark in demanding the faceless Euro judges are curbed.
Lords of woke
HE'S seen off the Cyborgs and doomed the Daleks.
But it seems Doctor Who could be killed off by the enemy within.
The show's obsession with gender, race and other identity politics is proving terminal to the Doctor's chances of regeneration.
And the public verdict has been succinctly savage.
'Rubbish, boring and woke,' say fed-up former fans.
Exterminating the scriptwriters is the only way to save the Time Lord.
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