This is The Guardian.

Lord Robertson, who authored the government's strategic defence review,

has said the Prime Minister has a corrosive complacency when it comes to defence.

Why did he say that to him?

Kirstama is being attacked for not raising defence spending.

Awkwardly for him, the criticism is coming from his own Labour peer, Lord Robertson.

So is Kirsteimma really starving the armed forces of cash?

And if he gives them more, where would he find the money?

I'm Raphael Bear, in for John Harris,

and you're listening to Politics Weekly for The Guardian. My colleague and guardian columnist

Gabby Hinsliff is with me. Hi, Gabby. Hello, Ralph. Now, let's get straight into it. Kirst

I'm probably used to getting abuse on military matters from Donald Trump by now, but he might have

hoped to avoid a roasting from a Labour peer and author of his own government's strategic

defence review. So Lord Robertson, former Labour Defence Secretary, you and I remember him well from

back in the day, former General Secretary of NATO, very, very serious military person, decided to

air his frustrations with the government's

failure to come forward with a 10-year spending plan for defence. So he said some pretty

fruity things. He said the government has shown a corrosive complacency towards defence. He said,

we are underprepared, we are underinsured, we are under attack. We are not safe. And he said that Britain's national security and safety is in peril. Those are strong words. So I kind of got two questions for you to begin with Gabby. First of all, is he right. And second of all, I mean, he makes it sound like Britain is literally at war.

And are we?

Some people would say we were.

I mean, there has been a sort of trend in Europe in recent months to argue that either that we are not at war, but we're also not at peace.

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