Former defence secretaries and Labour grandees have rowed in behind a former Nato secretary general, who has warned that the UK’s security is “in peril” as a result of the “corrosive complacency” of Sir Keir Starmer.
George Robertson, a former Labour defence secretary who was appointed by the prime minister to write the government’s Strategic Defence Review (SDR), will use a speech on Tuesday to accuse “non-military experts” in the Treasury of “vandalism” and claim Sir Keir is unwilling “to make the necessary investment” in Britain’s defence.
