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JEROME STARKEY: If hot air was a weapon Starmer would have rearmed Britain – but words don’t win wars:
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JEROME STARKEY If hot air was a weapon Starmer would have rearmed Britain – but words don’t win wars, PM
Jerome Starkey , Defence Editor
Published: 21:03, 14 Apr 2026 | Updated: 21:41, 14 Apr 2026
IF hot air was a weapon, Sir Keir Starmer would have re-armed Britain.
Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin would be quaking in his bearskin boots. China’s Xi Jinping and the Ayatollahs would take note.
Because, to give Sir Keir his dues, he talks the talk on war and defence.
Defence, in case you missed it, is the “fundamental organising principle” of his Government.
It is his “first thought in the morning, the last at night”.
It is “the pillar on which everything else stands or falls”.
There is no dilemma for Sir Keir. “We are not at a crossroads,” he told Europe’s leaders in February.
“The road ahead is straight and clear: We must build our hard power, because that is the currency of the age.”
That means military might. It is the strength to coerce or deter adversaries through the threat or use of force.
It is ships and submarines that sail, soldiers equipped to fight, fighter jets, missiles and drones that can penetrate deep into an enemy’s defences, and a cyber force poised to switch off the lights in Moscow, Pyongyang or Beijing.
Starmer grasps the Russian threat. “Putin’s aggression does not stop in Ukraine,” he warned last year.
“Russian spy ships menace our waters. Russian planes enter our airspace. Russian cyber attacks hit our NHS.”
Brazen Kremlin spies smeared deadly nerve agent Novichok around Salisbury.
They put explosive dildos on DHL planes and hired thugs for arson attacks in London.
Last month three Russian submarines were caught lurking over sub-sea cables in British and Norwegian waters.
Starmer is far more coy about the threat from China.
He is diplomatic about Donald Trump’s rants that undermine Britain and Nato.
Yet he is clear on how Europe must respond.
“We must stand on our own two feet, and that means being bold,” he told the Munich Security Conference.
“We must be able to deter aggression and, yes, if necessary, be ready to fight.”
He knows how to get there: “We are going to have to spend more, faster.”
He admits that means “hard choices”. He knows he must make them quickly.
“Time and again, leaders looked the other way, only re-arming when disaster was upon them,” he warned.
“This time, it must be different. Because all of the warning signs are there.”
This is all first-rate rhetoric. Hurrah! Give Starmer’s speech writers a round of applause. Now, let’s look at reality.
Starmer leads a nation with the smallest Royal Navy since it was founded by Henry VIII.
It has lost seven warships while he was Prime Minister, including a frigate and a mine hunter that used to be based in the Gulf.
When RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus was hit by an Iranian drone last month, there wasn’t one British warship between Singapore and Gibraltar, for the first time in living memory.
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It took three weeks to get HMS Dragon into the eastern Mediterranean — and the first thing it did when it got there was call in to port for repairs.
In Dragon’s absence, the Navy has had to borrow a German frigate, from which they command a Nato taskforce. The other five Navy destroyers — boasting the UK’s best air-defence weapons — are all stuck in port.
One of them, HMS Daring, hasn’t sailed for almost nine years. Similarly, five of the six hunter-killer submarines are also stranded in port.
One was deployed to Australia on a trade mission when the war in Iran erupted.
None were available to defend our shores during a major month-long mission in March to track three Russian nuclear submarines probing UK waters.
Meanwhile our nuclear deterrent — the bedrock of Britain’s national defence — has been stretched to breaking point.
Only two of the Vanguard-class submarines are serviceable, which means crews endure six-month patrols to ensure one is always at sea. They were designed for maximum 80-day voyages.
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary, which supports the Royal Navy, has not got enough sailors. The ones it does have are on strike over pay.
On land, the Army has shrunk to just 70,000 trained soldiers — its smallest size for over 200 years.
Almost all of its guns have been given to Ukraine. Only a handful have been replaced.
The tank fleet is shrinking by 30 per cent, assuming no more cuts. Its flagship Ajax recce vehicle makes soldiers sick and deaf.
Even training exercises have been slashed.
Army chief General Sir Roly Walker warned global threats climax next year and Britain must be ready for war.
How exactly is that going? The Deputy Chief of Defence Staff said the Army would struggle to field a thousand armoured troops to Europe.
The RAF is marginally better. Their Lightning and F-35 B Lightning jets are in action across the Gulf.
But it is unclear how many Typhoons will get the radar upgrades to stay war-ready. The Wedgetail AWACs planes are delayed.
It is unclear if the Government will pursue air-launched nukes. Even the flagship Global Combat Air Programme, Tempest, is in doubt — alarming allies Italy and Japan.
Why? Because Starmer has dodged and delayed the choices he promised to make.
He will say he cut foreign aid last year to accelerate cash for defence.
This is true. It was low-hanging fruit in electoral terms.
Voters do not care about aid. Voters care about health, education and welfare.
The tough choice is guns or butter, a choice between what to take from voters now to make the nation safer tomorrow.
At the moment, Starmer’s answer is nothing: Safety can wait, as welfare buys votes.
This is why he is unable to publish the Defence Investment Plan.
The DIP sets out which weapons get funded and which get axed over the decade.
It is vital for UK defence.
It is this gulf between words and deeds that triggered Lord Robertson to accuse the PM of “corrosive complacency” yesterday.
It was a rare attack from a Labour grandee, but one that has been a long time coming.
Lord Robertson served as a Defence Secretary in Tony Blair’s government.
He was also the last British Secretary General of Nato, and an author of Keir Starmer’s Strategic Defence Review, which made 62 recommendations when finally published last year.
He accused Starmer of paying “lip service . . . to the risks, the threats, the bright red signals of danger”.
How did the Government respond? How do you expect? Warm words.
“We are delivering on the Strategic Defence Review . . . We are finalising our Defence Investment Plan that we will publish as soon as possible, putting the best kit and technology into the hands of our Forces.”
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