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 mushroom cloud threatening to go off was the PM’s combustible mood. He was in a right old grump! Repeat...
Source: dailymail.co.uk