"Britain Faces Threats from Every Angle – Where’s Starmer’s Strategy to Protect the UK and Reverse Our Global Decline?"

Decline & fail

THERE was a time when Britain held vital diplomatic sway across the Middle East.

Now the region’s leaders barely bother to humour us.

Britain faces threats on all sides — so where is the PM’s plan to properly defend the country and restore our standing in the world?Credit: AFP

raced to yesterday and came back with an “agreement” with the Crown Prince that peace must be restored. No kidding.

Meanwhile, Foreign Secretary no doubt had the mad mullahs of Iran quaking when . It’s all just words.

The wholesale dismantling of Britain’s Armed Forces over recent decades is our greatest weakness.

That was thrown into sharp focus again yesterday as revealed .

The Defence Secretary was speaking just 24 hours after a Russian frigate brazenly escorted one of Putin’s shadow fleet tankers in the Channel — making a mockery of .

There are plenty of Labour AND Tory ministers responsible for the dilapidated state of the military. But it falls to the Starmer Government to now sort it out — and it has so far failed dismally.

The threats to British interests come from many directions.

So we ask again: where IS the spending plan to defend our country properly and restore our standing in the world?

Les Frenemies

A POINT blank refusal to allow British vessels to intercept small boats and send them back is yet more proof that France is perfectly happy for migrants to risk their lives to cross the Channel.

were . The uncomfortable truth is that France simply doesn’t want to solve the problem.

Allowing 41,000 to cross last year means a whole town’s-worth of people that France now doesn’t have to deal with.

Our Government must also accept its share of responsibility.

, while continuing to offer free housing, healthcare and , was tragic stupidity.

Dread Ed

HOW much more damage to our economy can one man do?

Energy company bosses say carbon taxes and network upgrade charges imposed by are inflicting on the UK some of the .

It’s those costs which yesterday drove — part of a £31billion investment by US firms,

Miliband refuses to open the Jackdaw and Rosebank oil and fields in the North Sea which the Institute says should be fired up NOW.

If Red Ed won’t accept that, he should fired, too.