The first duty of any government is to keep our country safe.
The UK’s Russia report, published by the Intelligence and Security Committee last July, and the way ministers responded to it, made clear that this Conservative government is failing badly in that duty.
The government’s own Integrated Review, published this week, called Russia an “active threat”. The comments, made in the biggest review of foreign and defence policy since the end of the Cold War, remind us of just how pressing this issue is. This weekend at our Spring Conference, the Liberal Democrats will be urging the Government to address it urgently.
