build—up to all of this. we've seen keir starmer go out and see british nato's troops in estonia a couple of times. he went out to nato hq himself, in brussels, on an occasion, he went to barrow in furness, in cumbria, where british nuclear submarines are made. he has been going out of his way to try and say, "look, whatever happened under labour in the recent past, iejeremy corbyn" — and recall that he served injeremy corbyn�*s shadow cabinet — "labour has changed since now." labour have often historically faced a sort of battle when it comes to credibility, believability, and trust on defence. it's not traditionally a strong subject for the party. then you throw into the mixjeremy corbyn — who was a sceptic about nuclear weapons, sceptic about nato, the defence alliance — and labour were trounced at the last general election. and what keir starmer has been trying to do pretty much ever since he got the job is to reassure