Just remind us which party you support? Oh yes, the Conservative Party.
And who are the worst Prime Ministers since the 1900s?
Liz Truss, widely regarded by many as the worst Prime Minister in modern British history.
Boris Johnson, whose government was in office during the Covid pandemic, during which more than 200,000 people died in the United Kingdom.
Neville Chamberlain.
Given that record, perhaps lectures about political leadership should be taken with a pinch of salt, particularly from The Spectator, a Tory rag that once had Boris Johnson as its Editor.
The last Prime Minister to resign over national security was Neville Chamberlain in 1940.
Eighty six years later, Sir Keir Starmer's defence secretary and armed forces minister have resigned because they believe the current PM and Chancellor of the Exchequer are endangering national security through their refusal to fund the armed services properly.
The UK is ranked 31st out of 32 on a database comparing how Nato members are meeting their rearmament promises. The only country below us is Iceland, which has no armed forces.
There could be no worse an accusation by a (now former) Defence Secretary. This should be climactic for Starmer. And yet there is zero possibility of him resigning in shame or, as with Chamberlain, having lost the confidence of his own MPs.
โ๏ธ Stephen Pollard
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