By Tobias Billström

In the event of a war, the UK has no plan to defend itself.

This isn’t the throwaway sentiment of an observer, but the words of the head of the UK’s military, who this week sounded the alarm on the country’s war readiness.

The startling admission from Air Chief Marshall Sir Richard Knighton comes amid mounting warnings about the threat of war with Russia and the US President seeming more and more set on invading Greenland.

The warning is stark. In the event of a further escalation of the war in Europe, the UK would be largely unprepared, unable to fund its equipment programme or meet the goals laid out in its sweeping and ambitious defence review unveiled last year.

Unless something changes, the consequences could be catastrophic.

Beyond just the general escalation of conflict, Ukraine has massively........

© LBC