Fox weighs in to Labour's legacy of bills
Liam Fox yesterday launched a blistering attack on the "ghastly" legacy left by Labour's stewardship of the Armed Forces, accusing them of being the most "short sighted, self serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective" Government in history.
The Defence Secretary accused Ministers of behaving “like out-of-control online shoppers who kept ordering more and more without once considering how they might pay for them when the goods arrived”.
He said Labour’s economic policies were a “national security liability”, leaving Ministers with 38bn of unfunded liabilities relating to commitments which Labour signed up to over the next decade.
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Hide AdDr Fox also reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to replacing Trident, telling activists at the party conference in Birmingham: “We will maintain Britain’s nuclear deterrent and will go ahead with the Trident replacement programme.”