He has promised to give Ukraine long-range air defence weapons, along with jet fighter planes, to allow that country to better defend itself from Russian aggression.
And he wants Russia’s warlords to face justice after peace is brought about.
But what kind of peace will we get?
Sunak is gambling that Russian leader Vladimir Putin will not dare to use his nuclear arsenal.
But the easiest way to stop the UK from providing anything to Ukraine is to wipe the UK off the map.
It would be a suicidal strategy for Putin as well, because the UK’s allies would respond. But that would be scant consolation.
And, if you believe Boris Johnson (ha ha!), Putin has already threatened the UK with nuclear reprisals.
So one has to question whether sabre-rattling of the kind that Sunak is doing is really a sane way forward.
Here’s his speech to the Munich Security Conference:
Grant Shapps: he’s not stranger to controversy. Check out the businesses he ran under his pseudonyms Michael Green, Sebastian Fox and Corinne Stockheath.
The Transport Secretary of Boris Johnson’s Conservative government is spending public money paying private lobbyists to argue against his own government’s plans to build on aircraft runways that are privately-owned, it has been alleged.
The reason? The government minister concerned – Grant Shapps – is the owner of a private aircraft, and also of a private runway.
The allegations are made in a Times article hidden behind a paywall:
You couldn't make it up.
A minister using taxpayer cash to fund lobbying efforts against his own government's plans to build on the runways he uses for his private plane.
The Tories really do think it's one rule for them, another for everyone else.https://t.co/jRtGE5d9KA
So that’s all the information we have. Alok Sharma was certainly being cagey about it when Andrew Marr interviewed him:
#marr: Do you think it was appropriate for Grant Shapps to set up a special unit, inside his department, to lobby for private airports, as he uses those airports?
Alok Sharma: I've spent the last 3 weeks hunkered down in Glasgow, but Grant Shapps is doing a great job… pic.twitter.com/QdLiAAhJq9
The issue is clear: government policy is to build houses on land currently occupied by the runways used by owners of private planes.
Shapps is paying private lobbyists to try to get the government – of which he is Transport Secretary – to change this policy. He is using public – government – money to fund this activity.
So the government is paying your money to fund opposition to its own policy.
It has been said before but could it ever be more clear?
These Tories really do think it’s one rule for them and another for the rest of us.
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Cartoonist Patrick Blower comments on Theresa May’s leaking aircraft carrier.
We have been in this situation before.
Remember the fantastic new Type 45 destroyers whose engines stopped whenever they went into battle? The broken backbone of the British fleet, This Writer called them.
It cost the UK many millions of pounds to rectify the faults, that were built into foreign-made equipment.
Hopefully it won’t cost as much to fix a faulty seal – but you never know.
These ships were commissioned by Conservatives, and they don’t understand the value of money when they’re spending it on their toys.
The UK’s new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, is leaking because of a faulty seal.
The Royal Navy’s future flagship, which was commissioned by the Queen earlier this month in Portsmouth, has a problem with one of its propeller shafts.
The fault on the £3.1bn carrier was first identified during sea trials.
A Royal Navy spokesman said the ship was scheduled for repair and the fault did not prevent it from sailing again early in the new year.
BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said the problem was “highly embarrassing” for the Royal Navy and just one of a number of snags still to be rectified.
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