Will Labour learn to love defence?

Will Labour learn to love defence?

Towering above John Healey as he chats with Merseyside journalists is a 1,000-tonne chunk of warship, chalk marks indicating the welds that scar its steel surface. When it’s finished, this will be the prow of a Type 26 submarine-hunting frigate, and thanks to a £10 billion deal with Norway to build five more  than originally planned, the Birkenhead-based Cammell Laird shipyard can look forward to a decade’s worth of work. The questions for the B…