Committed socialist Starmer has spent the morning suggesting that Lammy and Rayner’s forceful opposition to nuclear deterrence doesn’t matter, because he believes in it and he “leads the party from the front“. His newfound “dedication” to nuclear weapons might ring a little hollow considering his longstanding position in a group promoting total nuclear disarmament…
Starmer joined the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers as secretary in late 1988 – he stayed in post for a full twenty years and only left to take up the DPP job. In autumn of 1989, the society issued some robust resolutions in issue No 9 of the Socialist Lawyer publication. In response to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty the group demanded that Britain and “other capitalist countries follow suit by abandoning weapons and strategies of genocide; and urges the Labour Party to adopt a non-nuclear, non-aligned defence policy as the precondition for the preservation and extension of human rights, and the key to victory at the next General Election.” Unilateral disarmament – Jezza must be proud of his successor…
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps tells Guido in response: “Everyone knows Keir Starmer flip flops on all his views, but the fact he can’t be relied on to stand by the UK’s nuclear deterrent and our essential NATO alliance is dangerous for Britain and its allies. This is the man who twice wanted Jeremy Corbyn to be PM. But his lack of credence on defence goes back much further as these revelations show.” What else is socialist Starmer committed to imposing on this “capitalist country”?
Kemi Badenoch defended her decision not to force Tory councils to hold elections in May, telling GB News:
“It is Conservative policy that we should have elections, but I’m not a dictator. You know Nigel Farage, no one else makes any decisions, he’s a one-man band.”
