defence spending

Starmer's £270 Billion Was Wrong. A Watchdog Wrote a Letter.

On 13 March, in front of the packed benches and the union jack flags that always seem to travel with the Prime Minister these days, Sir Keir Starmer told the House that Labour was delivering "the biggest boost to defence spending since the Cold War, £270 billion over the

defence spending

Britain's Defence Budget Has a Chain of Command. Voters Aren't On It.

In July 2024, Rachel Reeves published a Public Spending Audit and found £22 billion of unfunded resource pressures sitting across government, with no minister having voted for any of it in the ordinary sense. The Ministry of Defence's response was to be told, along with everyone else, to