In a speech today [Saturday 7th March 2026] will say Labour's response
to the Iran War has been lacking, as she says: “while the rest of
the world rearms, they are playing student politics”. She is
expected to say:
MP is expected to
say:
“I never thought I would see the day when Britain's allies felt
that they could not rely on us.
This week, they have described us as weak. They've accused us of
deserting them, of going missing in action.
They have watched Britain refusing to send reinforcements to
defend our military bases in the Mediterranean.
The US, Greece and France have all sent ships. Ours is stuck in
Portsmouth Harbour, apparently because of a union dispute.
They have watched us make the US and Israel wait to use our
airbases while our allies in Cyprus and Bahrain are under attack.
They have seen us giving away British sovereign territory in the
Chagos Islands, home of a crucial UK/US defence base, which is
being used right now to defend our interests in the Middle East.
No wonder they feel they no longer can rely on us.
***
At a time when Britain needs strong and decisive leadership,
Last week's by-election has spooked the Labour party. They
watched the Greens campaigning on sectarian voting lines, a
tactic Labour used for many years turned against them.
Now Starmer is too scared of upsetting certain sections of
Labour's target voters to act in our national interest.
Everyone remembers the mistakes of the Iraq war.
Nobody is suggesting we should drop bombs without a second
thought.
But spent days consulting lawyers
and plucking up the courage to say whose side he was on, even
though our allies had the moral clarity to do so immediately and
unequivocally.
Even now, he is sitting on the fence, still deciding what our
role is going to be in this war.
We are in this war whether Keir Stamer likes it or not. It's time
to act.
***
We offered our support in the national
interest to pass welfare cuts so that he could spend more on
defence. But he declined.
He spends a lot of his time at summits and international
conferences, happier on the world stage than he is back home.
But the fact is, he's not even strong enough to win a
contest with his own backbenchers.
He is a political hostage.
Held at the behest of a load of half-rate left-wing MPs, none of
whom grasp the seriousness of the world that Britain is now in.
While the rest of the world rearms, they are playing student
politics.
Today's Labour Party is nothing like the patriotic Labour Party
of yesteryear.
In the 1950s, Nye Bevan warned about Britain not having a nuclear
deterrent, he described it as the UK being sent naked into the
conference chamber.
Well today, it's happening again.
***
Labour's own defence advisor, Sir Richard Barrons has said the
“UK is trapped in a conspiracy of stupidity because politicians
aren't willing to make the case for cutting public spending to
fund defence.”
Well I am.
That's why yesterday I announced that my Conservative government
would reinstate the two-child benefit cap, and spend that money
on defence.
It will pay for the largest net increase in British troop numbers
under any Prime Minister since the second world war.
I have chosen my priority, and that is to keep British families
safe.”
