Andy Burnham Stunned As Keir Starmer Hands Him £5 Billion Defence Spending Time Bomb

The new PM will need to plug huge black hole in his first Budget.

Andy Burnham has been left stunned after it Keir Starmer handed him a £5 billion black hole in the government’s defence spending plans.

The PM-in-waiting was briefed in advance of the publication of the government’s Defence Investment Plan (DIP) on Tuesday.

It set out plans to boost the defence budget by........

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