What are we to make of the Burnham government’s position on national defence, and on the undeclared conflict with Russia?
The PM has made his obligatory visit to Ukraine and offered President Zelensky very specific help with missiles which can be used to target Russian territory.
Moscow has responded by saying that its reply – to Ukrainian strikes using British weapons on Russian territory – could be against ‘any British military facilities and equipment in Ukraine and beyond’.
This is pretty serious. What then has become of the pledge made by Chancellor John Healey when he was Defence Secretary – that he was
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