Post Cold War prosperity is dead. Get ready to be taxed for your own safety

Post Cold War prosperity is dead. Get ready to be taxed for your own safety

Sir Keir Starmer had three audiences in mind when he took to the stage at the Munich Security Conference. But if he is to keep his word to any of them, he must deliver a political step-change at home. First was the EU. He wants them to allow the UK to access its new defence commissioning fund which would give British defence firms a role in a lucrative scheme to rearm the continent. He’s already been refused once, but he commenced a new charm of…