Urgent strategy is required to halt the march of tyranny in Europe
On Victory in Europe Day, 1945, Winston Churchill gave an address to an exhausted but jubilant nation from the balcony of the ministry of health. In it, he reminded the British people that 'we were the first, in this ancient island, to draw the sword against tyranny'.
Britain's early move to arrest the grotesque ambitions of the Nazi regime rightly remains a source of national pride. Indeed, it partly informs the strong collective UK backing for Ukraine in the face of Russian invasion and atrocities. In his speech at the London Defence Conference on the 80th anniversary of VE day, Sir Keir Starmer drew an explicit line between the 'forces of hatred, tyranny and evil' in the Second World War and the Russian threat to
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