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Lord Cameron has accused Labour of standing for nothing after Sir Keir Starmer accepted a right-leaning Tory MP into the party.<\/p>\n

The foreign secretary said Sir Keir welcoming Dover MP Natalie Elphicke<\/a><\/strong> into Labour on Wednesday showed the party does not have a plan.<\/p>\n

“In life, if you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything,” he said following a speech about defence on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“I thought that’s sort of what yesterday said, that there isn’t a policy about anything.<\/p>\n

“It’s just been about clearing the decks to try and focus attention on the governing party.<\/p>\n

“And I think yesterday proved, ‘oh, if you’re going to fall for that, then you really stand for nothing’. The plan, policies? No idea.”<\/p>\n

“When you hear about a defection you think ‘oh no, not another one, how are we going to handle this by the end of the day?’.<\/p>\n

“But that says so much more about Keir Starmer, the Labour Party, and a complete lack of clarity than it does about a prime minister who’s a good man, doing a great job in a difficult time,” he said.<\/p>\n

“But I think increasingly people will see that.”<\/p>\n

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Mrs Elphicke’s defection<\/a><\/strong> has been criticised on all sides of the political spectrum, with many Labour MPs unhappy to have a politician in their party who was seen as being to the right of the Tory party, especially with her views on immigration.<\/p>\n

Conservative MPs have expressed their confusion over why she defected after heavily criticising Labour on many occasions.<\/p>\n

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Lord Cameron was giving a speech on the UK’s national security at the National Cyber Security Centre when he made the comments.<\/p>\n

He called on Britain and its allies to “out-compete, out-cooperate and out-innovate” their adversaries in an ongoing “battle of wills”.<\/p>\n

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Too many “adopt a kind of defensive crouch” instead of taking action, but Britain can choose to make a difference together with its partners, he said.<\/p>\n

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“We in Britain and the wider West have agency – the question is if we have the courage to use it – the courage to act,” he said.<\/p>\n

He added that the UK will not sign free trade deals “for the sugar rush of the press release”.<\/p>\n

In the wide-ranging speech, he also defended the government’s deal to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, saying the UK was open to the world – but would not allow criminal gangs to decide who can enter the country.<\/p>\n

He also reiterated the recent UK commitment to build up to spending 2.5% of GDP on defence and said other Nato allies should be aiming for this too.<\/p>\n

“Still some seem unwilling to invest even as war rages on our continent,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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