Labour and the Bomb
Sir Keir Starmer has learned to love the Trident missile system, a vast Cold War superpower weapon that costs so much that it prevents us maintaining proper armed forces. What's wrong, I wonder, with a small basic deterrent we can properly afford?
But back in 1989, when Sir Keir was secretary of the very hard-Left Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, that organisation was debating motions urging the Labour Party to adopt a non-nuclear, non-Nato defence.
I am fascinated by the way that, ever since Anthony Blair pretended never to have been a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Labour's upper deck have claimed to be keen on the Bomb. But when it was actually useful to have it, when Moscow had a gigantic army sitting in Germany, they were all against it. MOS. Peter Hitchens.
