Rishi Sunak, in last-ditch mode, is ready to go all guns blazing for Keir Starmer

The PM’s intended target, however, was not really nasty dictators doing bad stuff, but a resurgent Labour Party. Asked by the BBC after the speech whether he really thought we would be less safe under a Starmer government, an unusually pithy Sunak replied: “Yes.” In truth, there is little factual difference between the parties on major issues roiling the world. So Sunak’s broadside was really a psy-ops move — namely that Labour is a bit dodgy on deterrence and has too much CND in its DNA to be reassuring, while Conservatives secure home and hearth.