He stated: “It is also absurd, in the week in which President Biden and Speaker Johnson have come forward with a rather substantial programme of assistance to Ukraine for our Defence Secretary to stand up and say that the Nato partners looked at each other for leadership, and the UK Government stepped forward to provide the alliance with the decisive leadership in this knife-edge moment, and in the build-up to the Nato summit in Washington, he, Mr Shapps, will be doing all he can do to get alliance members to follow our lead.”