Corbyn was pressed on whether he would support military action by the United Kingdom to support a European ally attacked. Equally insistently he made clear that he would not. His words leave no doubt that he would betray our allies. First he said:

"I would want to avoid us getting involved militarily by building up the diplomatic relationships and also trying to not isolate any country in Europe, to bring them up."

Then he added:

"I don’t wish to go to war. What I want to do is achieve a world where we don’t need to go to war, where there is no need for it. That can be done."

This is not just an opinion or an attitude – it is a breach of a treaty, the Nato Treaty, article 5 of which says:

“The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.”

Or in the pithier language of the labour movement – "an injury to one is an injury to all". One can clearly hear the influence of the great Ernie Bevin, Foreign Minister in the Attlee government.