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It’s not that he doesn’t have talents. He was a successful human rights lawyer, after all. If I’d wanted to fiddle the asylum system, or make a false claim that I’d been abused by a British veteran, I’d hire him on the spot. On the other hand, if I was a British soldier in a foxhole, with deadly enemy drones buzzing overhead, I wouldn’t be too keen. Because I wouldn’t believe Starmer had my back. And I’d know for sure Chancellor Rachel Reeves doesn’t.

Yesterday, in a parting shot to his premiership, Starmer set out his spending plans for defending the UK against Vladimir Putin’s Russia, China and Iran. After years of dithering and delay, our troops now know where they stand. If that British soldier is hoping for support from a Skynet-6 military satellite, Special Forces R-1 Shadow spy plane or Wildcat helicopter, I’ve got bad news. Starmer just axed the lot.

If our brave troops were hoping to take the fight to the enemy by unleashing a barrage of Storm Shadow missiles, they’d be equally disappointed. Also scrapped. I’d be worried about my loved ones too. Urgent repairs to military housing, worth £9billion, are being delayed, leaving our heroes’ partners and children living in unhealthy, mouldy homes. While Britain hands shiny new builds to asylum seekers. But that’s not the worst.

I’d also be concerned about my homeland after Starmer slashed hundreds of millions from our already threadbare missile defences. But even those might not even be my biggest worries. Because Starmer just let slip a terrifying omission that will have Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin rubbing his hands with glee.

Starmer set out plans to increase defence spending. The PM called it the “biggest sustained increase since the Cold War”. It isn’t. Some £4billion of the £5billion going on drones was previously announced and is now double counted. Starmer claims we’ll spending 2.7% of GDP on defence. In reality, less than 2.3% will go on our fighting forces. Nato members are supposed to spend 3.5%.

You can’t spin your way to victory in a shooting war. Starmer is playing political games with our nation’s defence but it’s worse than that. Incredibly, he went on to boast that thanks to his defence plan, Britain would be ready to fight Russia by 2030 if necessary. Excuse me. Did he really say that?

He does realise there is a murderous war going on in Europe today, doesn’t he? It began in 2022, four years ago. In Ukraine. Next to Russia. Today is 2026. Which means we won’t be able to defend ourselves for another four years? The war isn’t being fought to a timetable set by a British prime minister but the whims of an increasingly unhinged Russian dictator. And our PM just told him we won’t be ready for another four years. Assuming his spending plan is enough, which it isn’t.

Starmer just let slip a spine-chilling secret – our nation is defenceless. Basically, he’s invited Putin to attack us. NOW. Before we are ready. Which is usually the best time.

It’s an astonishing, terrifying blunder by a man who never once looked like a leader. Human rights lawyers aren’t the type who stand in court and think on their feet. They are procedural, building cases through paperwork and process over years. And doesn’t it show.

Imagine fighting a war on Starmer’s watch. While missiles battered defenceless British cities, he’d be in his bunker, hunched over some obscure international legal document, deciding which British soldiers to prosecute once it was all over.

While wondering if he should publicly reprimand the enemy for unfarily refusing to wait until 2030, when he’d announced we’d finally be ready to fight. But not before. Not today. In 2026. Starmer just told Putin that Britain is a soft target. The sooner he’s gone, the better.