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GAVIN WILLIAMSON’S plan to build a new military base in the Caribbean after Brexit is in total disarray, with the Tory Defence Secretary blindsiding senior officials who know almost nothing about the scheme.
The Morning Star can reveal that British diplomats spent the new year frantically asking their colleagues in London for clarity about which Caribbean country had agreed to host the mysterious new base — after Mr Williamson gave an interview to the Sunday Telegraph late last year.
Mr Williamson told the conservative broadsheet he wanted to get more British military assets “forward based” — and was looking for new opportunities to expand Britain’s “presence” in the Caribbean.
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE
US General Stanley McChrystal has been invited to advise on creating a ‘team of teams’ for healthcare transformation. His credentials? He previously ran interrogation bases where Iraqis were stripped naked and beaten, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
While David Lammy makes hollow criticisms, RAF Akrotiri conducts five-hour surveillance flights sending targeting data to Israel, reports ALFIE HOWIS
