Keir Starmer needs to have a frank conversation with voters about the price of security | Andrew Rawnsley

If defence spending has to rise, hard choices will have to be madeI’m not certain who minted the phrase, but it is an excellent one to describe the decade or so that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent implosion of the Soviet Union. The affluent liberal democracies were treated to “a holiday from history”.The west started turning its Cold War swords into ploughshares once its principal ideological and military adversary had departed the scene. The collapse o