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British
leader’s complacency on defense puts country ‘in peril,’ former NATO chief
warns
By
Ivana Kottasová
Updated 2 hr ago
It’s not just the US President
Donald Trump criticizing the British prime minister for being weak on defense.
On Tuesday his own adviser George Robertson joined in, accusing Keir Starmer of
a “corrosive complacency” that puts the United Kingdom “in peril.”
Speaking to the Financial
Times Robertson, a former NATO chief, said there was a gap
between Starmer’s rhetoric and his actions. He said the prime minister was
unwilling to make the necessary investment to keep the UK safe, choosing
instead to put money into “ever expanding welfare budget.”
Robertson is a key government
adviser whom Starmer commissioned to conduct a strategic review of UK defense
when he took over as prime minister after 14 years of Conservative rule.
When the review came out last year,
Robertson and his two co-authors, Gen. Richard Barrons, former head of the
Joint Forces Command, and Fiona Hill, a former senior director at the US National
Security Council, were clear: decades of cuts and underinvestment have left the
UK dangerously unprepared for a conflict.
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