British opposition leader Keir Starmer has pledged to keep the U.K.’s nuclear weapons
British opposition leader Keir Starmer pledged Monday to keep the U.K.’s nuclear weapons, seeking to dispel criticisms that his center-left Labour Party is soft on defense. Starmer is the current favorite to win Britain’s July 4 election and become prime minister. His campaign is centered on his claim to have transformed the party since he replaced Jeremy Corbyn, a longtime opponent of nuclear weapons and critic of NATO, as Labour leader in 2020.
He criticized the Conservatives for defense spending cuts that had given the U.K. “the smallest army since the time of Napoleon,” the French leader who fought Britain 200 years ago. He said the world had entered “a new age of insecurity” and “national security is the most important issue of our times.” The schism between pro- and anti-nuclear forces was long a fault-line in the Labour Party.
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