The nuclear choice
BY pledging to spend £100billion on four new Trident nuclear submarines, the Tories put clear blue water between themselves and their rivals – who, terrifyingly, either want to scrap the deterrent altogether or only replace some of the subs.
Having wisely listened to military chiefs on Trident, is it too much to hope David Cameron will now heed their warning that – in an ever more dangerous world – the Government must commit to spending two per cent of GDP on the annual defence budget?
As the Mail has long argued, there’s plenty of money in the bloated, grotesquely wasteful foreign aid pot – which has been increasing, while most major nations cut back – that could be better spent keeping this country safe. TODAY we reveal how the cash-strapped NHS is wasting £13million on prescriptions for suncream, plasters, yoghurt drinks, vitamins, toothpaste and other everyday items people should be buying for themselves from chemists. Meanwhile, academics say Britain ranks 27th in the world for health – below Slovenia, Spain and Portugal – because of shockingly high rates of death from infectious disease and obesity, which is linked to many cancers. NHS managers should be refocusing their priorities – and budgets – on improving this damning record. IN an extraordinary ruling, the Press is banned from naming the parents of children from Rochdale and east London who have travelled to Syria to join jihad – even when they have not cooperated with the authorities – seemingly to protect the youngsters’ identities. Welcome to the Alice in Wonderland world of inverted values that is modern Britain in which the extremists are the ‘victims’. AFTER scrapping a raft of Michael Gove’s sensible reforms to appease the Left-wing teaching unions, new education secretary Nicky Morgan earned the nickname Ms U-turn. Now she claims to find Nigel Farage’s remarks about the strain being placed on the NHS by migrants with HIV ‘stomach churning’ – despite his concerns being backed by millions of electors. One question: is Ms U- turn deliberately trying to lose the Tories votes?