In recent weeks, Boris Johnson has been telling us that Britain is getting ready to have a new role in the world. Britain's military power is to be displayed far and wide. The defence budget is to be vastly increased. Millions of pounds have been spent on a new aircraft carrier which is to be sent to the South China Sea. Britain will increase its stockpile of nuclear warheads beyond that allowed by international agreements. At the same time money can only be found for a miserly 1% pay increase for NHS staff.

While Jeremy Corbyn was leader of the Labour Party we would have expected there to be loud opposition to these policies in Parliament and out. Instead, under Keir Starmer the party has wrapped itself in the Union Jack and meekly accepted them. Some in the party argue that Labour should return to the sort of interventionism favoured by Tony Blair that resulted in defeat in Afghanistan and chaos in Iraq, Libya and Syria.

At the same time as taking increasingly aggressive stances towards both Russia and China, Britain continues to sell arms to Saudi Arabia for use in its war on Yemen that has brought death and famine to hundreds of thousands. And Britain takes the side of Israel in its continuing denial of rights to the people of Palestine.

Join Bristol Stop the War in this meeting to discuss how Boris Johnson's plans will make the world a less safe place and how we can build an anti-war movement to stop them.

Speakers:

Lindsey German and Andrew Murray, authors of Stop The War's latest pamphlet 'No Return To Blair Wars'. Jon Reddiford is an executive member of the National Education Union, an important trade union supporter of Stop the War.