Shadow home secretary James Cleverly has urged the party to avoid descending into ‘bitter infighting and finger pointing’
Luke Pollard, the new defence minister, was doing a media round this morning. He said that the defence review being launched by the government should be completed within a year. Keir Starmer has suggested that he won’t set a timetable for increasing defence spending to 2.5% of GDP until that has been completed.
Pollard also said the review would be “Nato-first”. He told Times Radio:
This will be a Nato-first strategic defence review, a focus on our unshakeable commitment to the North Atlantic, to the Europe area, to make sure that we’re keeping not only the UK safe but keeping our allies safe.
Because if we don’t support Ukraine and if they don’t win, Russia won’t stop there.
