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'Spineless Starmer is turning UK into a military pygmy': Farage blasts PM as Iran's leader in exile pleads for British support and top brass warn of £28bn funding crisis

Nigel Farage has condemned Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘spineless’ approach to defence spending, which he says has left Britain looking like a ‘pygmy’ as the world teeters on the edge of multiple incendiary conflicts.
With Iran facing meltdown, Donald Trump threatening war over Greenland and Vladimir Putin menacing Europe through Ukraine, the Reform UK leader said it was ‘terrifying’ that the UK faced a £28 billion shortfall in defence funding.
‘Just look what’s happening in the world,’ Mr Farage writes in today’s Mail on Sunday.
‘We could soon be embroiled in operations in Iran, and are being drawn closer towards conflict with Putin, and yet thanks to spineless Starmer failing to properly fund our Armed Forces we are now military pygmies on the international stage.’
Last week it was revealed that the UK’s top military chief, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, told the Prime Minister that the MoD faces a £28 billion shortfall between now and 2030.
Mr Farage’s words came amid …

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