Badenoch Blasts Starmer on Defense Plan

0:00On April 8th, Kimi Badanak, the Tory leader, is blasting Prime Minister Kier Starmer for talking big on the world stage about the Middle East War. While Britain lacks a real plan to rearm, she calls him all mouth and no trousers on defense, especially as wars rage in Europe and the Middle East, hitting families back home. Starmers jetting around the Gulf, like Saudi Arabia, claiming UK diplomacy is key to locking in the fragile U.S. Iran ceasefire and reopening the. Straight of Hormuz. But that long-promise defense investment plan from last fall? Still nowhere, with no clear way to hit his goal of 3% of GDP on defense by next parliament, Badanak said to tell the London Defense Conference that Tories would fund it by bringing back the two-child benefit cap, Labor ditched and pulling. Seventeen billion pounds from green energy projects for a new sovereign defense fund. She's urging Starmer to drop party politics and get a joint plan now, pledging Tory votes on a three-line whip. Labor's defense minister

1:03Luke Pollard head back, saying Tories hollowed out the forces when they were in power and should apologize first. Even Labor MP Tandezi, who chairs the Defense Select Committee, warns the missing plan risks Britain's NATO leadership. With the plan delayed by election perter rules, Starmer met UK troops in Saudi Arabia, insisting he's focused on national interests amid Trump jabs. As critics like Nigel Farage question his indecision, Britain's defense row shows no signs of cooling down.