Lord Kim Darroch

Keir Starmer needed to take something on defence to his visit to Washington. It's exactly the right moment, not just because of the meeting with Donald Trump, but because of the security situation that we face globally in terms of the threat from Russia... the instability around the world, the problems in the Middle East, the threat to international shipping.

Keir Starmer needed to take something on defence to his visit to Washington. It's exactly the right moment, not just because of the meeting with Donald Trump, but because of the security situation that we face globally in terms of the threat from Russia... the instability around the world, the problems in the Middle East, the threat to international shipping.

When you have to prioritise, as we do at the moment, then defence spending has to be the priority.

When you have to prioritise, as we do at the moment, then defence spending has to be the priority.