This came just hours after Sir Keir announced the UK will aim to spend 2.5 per cent of GDP on defence every year from 2027 and 3 per cent in the next Parliament.
Vladimir Putin’s attack dogs have turned on Britain after Sir Keir Starmer vowed to increase annual defence spending to a level last seen after the Cold War.
Host Olga Skabeeva – often hailed as Putin’s ‘Iron Doll’ – said Sir Keir had told Britain that ‘by bowing down to Putin, you are not showing patriotism’.
Russian propagandists made the best of their TV airtime and accused the ‘miserable wretch’ PM of ‘turning a blind eye’ to ‘immigrant crime’ in the UK while throwing £6 billion a year at surging the armed forces.
On the eve of his departure to meet Donald Trump in Washington, the UK prime minister told Parliament that the boost was necessary to provide Ukraine and Europe support in a ‘new era’.
