A line has been crossed. There is a bold, progressive way to think again about our defence and investment, social spending and foreign policy<\/p>\n
Little more than a year ago, Keir Starmer could be described as what Napoleon called a \u201clucky general\u201d. But now, six months after a landslide election victory, \u201clucky\u201d is an adjective unlikely to be found anywhere near a prime minister more usually described as having made missteps and unforced errors. And yet, perhaps, amid this tumult \u2013 a shifting geopolitical landscape, an authoritarian to the west of us conceding to the imperial ambitions of another to the east \u2013 Starmer\u2019s luck holds. For the situation offers him an unparalleled strategic opening through which my government can find and define its purpose.<\/p>\n
The prime minister himself has called this a \u201conce-in-a-generation opportunity<\/a>\u201d. The paradigm has shifted. It will not return to \u201cnormal\u201d. Most significantly, the shibboleth of atlanticism \u2013 that unshakeable belief that the US-UK relationship is always right and always in our interest \u2013 has released its grip on our political imagination. We are free to define defence and security on our terms. And \u2013 as an increasingly anxious public pushes defence up the league table of concerns \u2013 we must do so.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A line has been crossed. There is a bold, progressive way to think again about our defence and investment, social spending and foreign policy Clive Lewis is the Labour MP for Norwich South Little more than a year ago, Keir Starmer could be described as what Napoleon called a \u201clucky general\u201d. But now, six months … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}