The harsh reality is that Britain's defence and foreign policy is on hold until the general election
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron Rishi Sunak is no longer required to attend the regular EU councils with his 26 European counterparts, thanks to our exit from the European Union, but he seemingly is comfortable with turning down invitations too.
The Prime Minister has followed his predecessors Johnson and Truss in championing Ukraine’s defence against Russia’s attack. But for the most part he is happy to concentrate on placating the right wing of the Tory party at home.
There are also shock waves are coursing through the body politic of the Conservative arty as shown by the decision of the Armed Forces Minister, the former Defence Secretary, and quit parliament at the next election. Heappey says he is going for personal reasons and would probably lose his seat in Wells, Somerset any way. But it is no secret that he is worried about the UK’s readiness to defend itself.
Countries most directly threatened by Russia are binding themselves closer to Nato. Sweden and Finland have become new members. Denmark announced this week that it is “re-arming”, boosting its defence spending to hit the Nato target within five years, conscripting women and well as men, and integrating with Nato command.
Anxious to reserve its position on what may happen in Washington in the November election, the UK is on the sidelines as Europe debates how it will defend itself in what the UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps calls this “pre-war” phase. Even though it will be inevitably drawn in, as shown by the embarrassment when the Germans blurted that the UK and France already had technical military personnel in Ukraine.
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