ROBERT JENRICK: The security threats we face are the greatest in a generation. And Britain, hands meekly by its side, is yet to muster a response.
Wherever you look, the UK’s adversaries are on the offensive. Russian aggression shows no sign of abating. China’s jets breach Taiwan’s airspace daily, and with its unprecedented increase in military spending, Beijing’s ambitions evidently stretch further. Iran’s proxies attack British ships while Tehran is on the verge of gaining nuclear weapon capability. The security threats we face are the greatest in a generation.
In geopolitics, the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. And Britain, hands meekly by its side, is yet to muster a response. Pictured, Robert Jenrick But most scandalously, the foundations of our defence, our Trident nuclear deterrent, has been appallingly neglected. Just two of the four submarines that deliver our continuous at-sea deterrent are functional. They are so stretched that our Vanguard submarines are being sent on longer deployments than ever before.
What’s harder is explaining how to fund this increase when money is tight. Those who say one without the other are fundamentally unserious – voters deserve honesty about the hard trade-offs that follow. And instead of shovelling more money at increasingly bloated public services, we must drive through radical reforms.
Roughly a third of our aid budget goes on the ballooning costs of supporting asylum-seekers in the UK. If we ended the abuse of the system by economic migrants and closed the farcical asylum hotels, billions of pounds could be freed. We have no choice but to increase defence spending to three per cent of GDP. Pictured, Chinese troops marching under their national flag
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