JEREMY CORBYN has the most radical views on national security of any leader in the Labour Party's history. He is a long-standing opponent of both NATO and nuclear weapons. He has called Hamas and Hezbollah "friends". Faced with overwhelming evidence of Russian state involvement in the poisoning of two people in Salisbury, he first obfuscated and then demanded that Russia should be involved in the investigation. And yet the public has remained surprisingly indifferent to these brutal facts. In the election of 2017, the right-leaning press launched a fierce attack on Mr Corbyn's foreign-policy views. Readers yawned. This time the bombardment has started again, but to no obvious effect. The only national-security question that has caught fire is the government's refusal to publish a parliamentary report on alleged Russian meddling in British politics.
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