Labour’s battle to convince Britain it can be trusted on defence

Professor Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), says there was “serious concern” during this era that Corbyn could create a defence “crisis” if he came to power. “Corbyn’s position was very different from the long-held cross-party consensus on defence policy, which has really been in place since World War Two,” he says. “It contributed to the perception he was unreliable on issues of national security.”