Back In The Day When The Labour Party Truly Cared About Our Nation's Security.

Nato, which recently met in Watford on its 70th birthday,

 was actually a Labour Party idea. It was Ernest Bevin, Clement 

Attlee’s foreign secretary, who initiated discussions with

 the Americans that led to the North Atlantic Treaty and 

who saw security co-operation as essential to the postwar recovery of Europe. The Times.