It is the evening of 31 July 2027. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has spent the day with close friends and aides at Chequers celebrating the end of a gruelling but successful parliamentary term. The Prime Minister enters the small study to pick up some papers he wants to read through in bed. As he packs up, the phone rings. It is the duty clerk. She tells him, “Prime Minister, the Defence Secretary and chief of the defence staff, they want to speak to you urgently. Can I put you through?” As the night descends in Chequers it is the dawn...