- NATO Test = to ensure the avoidance of increasing defence funding the incoming Labour government will say bye-bye to any out of area commitments, including ignoring the China and North Korea threats, no SSN deployments to Oz, end of LRG(S), and most T31s and all T32s going the way of T43 and T44. Maybe a few more F35s?
I 'm pretty sure some of this is a certainty - someone just has to ask "what difference would UK forces make in a warm/hot war over Taiwan" to get the obvious answer. The T31's and T32'sa re safe-ish because they're being built in Scotland by people who used to vote Labour (and probably will again). I'd even bet on a few more Typhoons