HENRY DEEDES watches as Boris Johnson's defence statement misses the target
Fancy rockets, gleaming frigates, state-of-the-art new gear – usually when the Prime Minister discusses military matters, his speeches hum with the excitable rat-a-tat of gunfire and climax with a loud ‘kaboom’! Boris Johnson’s Integrated Review of defence and foreign policy yesterday, though, was a disappointingly soggy biscuit. Damper than an otter’s pocket. Plenty about increasing our already bulging nuclear stockpile (why?) but little by way of explosion. In fact, the only mushr...
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