At this critical time, when full-scale war could break out in the Middle East, Starmer chooses to sabre-rattle by announcing that Labour in power would build four replacement Vanguard nuclear submarines, each armed with eight trident missiles and a total of forty thermonuclear warheads.

He disregards the recent embarrassing news that test-launched tridents nose-dived into the pacific.

Unlike his predecessor as Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn, Starmer would be happy to press the nuclear button, enjoining Britain in the utter madness of mutually assured destruction.

If, in time of war, we were the first to launch a nuclear attack, killing millions, we could be certain of nuclear retaliation, rendering Britain uninhabited and uninhabitable for centuries.

A new Labour government, we are told by Starmer, would have no more money for our cash-starved public services and their workers than the skinflint spending of the current government, but he would find over £5 billion for the Trident programme. Thus he wraps himself in the flag and prepares for war.

He thinks this goes down well with the British electorate and will win Downing Street for him. Unfortunately, he may be right on that point.

Patriotism and tough talk appeals to the gullible British public.