Bob Seely: Resilience and “corrosive complacency” - the dangers of Labour's attitude to defence

Bob Seely: Resilience and “corrosive complacency” - the dangers of Labour's attitude to defence

Dr Robert Seely MBE is author of ‘The New Total War’, and a former Conservative MP.  When Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said this weekend that Britain was unprepared for conflict, she was right, but I fear the situation is worse than Kemi thinks. Speaking at the London Defence Conference, she explained how our conventional forces have been run down. Both parties share the blame, and most defence ministers in recent times should hang their he…