Incoherent on the delivery of more nuclear warheads, the PM was also short on detail about ‘Global Britain’
There’s a first time for everything. In his Commons statement on the integrated defence, security and foreign policy review, Boris Johnson opened by saying that its aim was to make the UK stronger, safer and more prosperous. If true, that would probably be the only occasion the prime minister has achieved those aims. Normally the one thing you can rely on him to achieve is to make things worse. By neglect if not on purpose. Just think of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic over the last year.
Still, there’s nothing Boris likes more than his own grandiosity so there was plenty of opportunity to talk up “Global Britain”. What was missing was the detail on how this was going to be achieved now that we had had a slight falling out with our Nato allies in the EU.
