
THOUSANDS of British troops could be sent to Estonia and kept on high alert in the government’s latest contribution to the deteriorating international climate.
Defence Secretary John Healey announced the plan, which places the army’s Yorkshire-based Fourth Brigade on stand-by to be sent east with accompanying tanks and rockets, at a Nato meeting in Brussels today.
He also pledged closer British involvement in long-range missile development and other arms-race initiatives.

ANDREW MURRAY recommends a volume of essays that nail the visionless, racist and neoliberal character of policy under Starmer’s Labour Party

Corbyn and Sultana commit to launching new socialist party

If Labour MPs who rebelled over the welfare reforms expected to be listened to, they shouldn’t have underestimated the vindictiveness of the Starmer regime. But a new left party that might rehome them is yet to be established, writes ANDREW MURRAY