My son has a penchant for fantasy movies, especially Marvel. It’s an expensive taste. The cinema isn’t cheap once you add in food and parking. So in a way I am grateful to Sir Keir Starmer. Because there’s now no need for my son to visit the cinema again. If he wants a fantasy, all he needs to do is listen to the Prime Minister speak about defence.

To be fair to the PM, he isn’t the only one. Pretty much the entire political class is, to varying degrees, living in a fantasy – that we have even started to get to grips with the requirements for defence spending, let alone decided to do something about it.

If you find me a party which is being serious about defence, I’ll find you a unicorn

Sir Keir has been on the airwaves today trumpeting the rise in defence spending from 2.3 per cent of

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