UK needs to spend more on defence
BRITAIN’S defence spending falls way short of what is demanded by the hostile advances of our enemies.
On UK streets we’ve seen outrageous murders, poisonings and spying by Russia and China’s brazen henchmen.
Moscow fires chilling threats of retaliation at us on a regular basis over our support for Ukraine.
The escalation of conflict in the Middle East has put our forces on high alert.
Yesterday, a terror suspect believed to be spying for Iran was arrested at a key UK airbase in Cyprus.
Meanwhile, security at RAF Brize Norton was exposed as a farce by Palestinian fanatics on Friday.
In this climate the Government’s commitment to hike our defence spending from 2.3 to 2.6 per cent of GDP by 2027 is not enough — not by a long chalk.
As President Trump has pointed out, this level of investment is a relic of a past era.
Even Germany forks out more than us in cash terms.
This week’s NATO summit will see Britain pressing to ratchet up our spending to a more realistic five per cent.
But even if that is agreed, it will not kick in until the 2030s and some of the cash will go on security infrastructure.
To meet the threats facing the UK now, Sir Keir Starmer must tear up our ruinous net zero ambitions and ballooning welfare budget.
Then plough more of those funds into defence of the realm.
In an increasingly dangerous world, we cannot afford to wait another ten years.
© Jerome Starkey 2024As threats around the world grow, Britain must up defence spending[/caption]
Grooming injustice
WHAT insanity that convicted rapists can seek parental rights over kids born as a result of their evil acts.
Rotherham grooming gang survivor Sammy Woodhouse is rightly campaigning for an end to this appalling injustice.
Sammy, who gave birth aged just 15 after suffering horrific abuse, was told her attacker could apply from jail for contact with her child because of his rights to a family life.
As she said, it was “another nightmare I had to live through.”
MP and fellow rape victim Natalie Fleet is also attempting to amend legislation to ban fathers from gaining parental responsibility over kids conceived during rape.
She says: “It’s shocking that children are the only proceed of crime that a criminal can have lifelong access to.”
This disgraceful legal loophole must be closed immediately.
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