Britain’s leaders have shown a “corrosive complacency” towards defence, putting the country “in peril” while it is “under attack”, a key government adviser has warned, in a stinging rebuke of Sir Keir Starmer’s military policy.
Lord George Robertson, former Nato secretary-general and author of the government’s strategic defence review (SDR), told the FT that there was a gap between the prime minister’s rhetoric and action on defence — saying Starmer was “not willing to make the necessary investment”.
The former Labour defence secretary will use a lecture in Salisbury on Tuesday to warn that the Iran war “has to be a rude wake-up call”.
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