Keir Starmer is facing fierce criticism over the UK's readiness for conflict after former Nato secretary general Lord George Robertson warned in London on Tuesday that Britain is 'not safe' and that the country's national security is 'in peril' under the current government's spending priorities.
Lord Robertson, a former Labour defence secretary who oversaw Tony Blair's landmark Strategic Defence Review in the late 1990s, is due to use a set-piece lecture to accuse the Prime Minister of allowing welfare spending and Whitehall caution to hollow out the country's defences.
