Labour’s Shaky AUKUS Manifesto Commitment

Labour’s manifesto says on page 120 under “Britain Reconnected”:

“Labour is fully committed to AUKUS, the trilateral security partnership with Australia and the United States.”

Starmer’s Shadow Cabinet seems to have a different view altogether. Definite non-fan Stephen Kinnock, Shadow Minister for Asia and the Pacific, said that AUKUS was “betraying the French”:

“What we would have done is do it in a way that didn’t involve betraying the French, frankly, which is what it really looks like, and there was no need for that.