Keir has not got his finger on the button

THE urgent need to increase defence spending shows our hapless PM once again discovering that government is not about spouting lists of vows, promises and pledges, but about making hard choices (“Budget delay won’t ‘cut the mustard’ as Russia threaten”, June 3).

- Roy Daniels

His options so far of cancelling pensioners’ winter fuel payments, VAT on private education, inheritance tax on farms and