George Robertson’s critique of the government’s reluctance to commit to proper defence spending is deeply politically inconvenient for Keir Starmer. This is not just because the Prime Minister has tried repeatedly to claim that Labour is the party that is protecting the armed forces – while holding onto Ben Wallace’s ‘hollowed out’ line about the Tories as a comfort blanket. But the speech that the co-author of the strategic defence review will give tonight also highlights the government’s failure to reform welfare, with one of the pre-trailed lines being ‘we cannot defend Britain with an ever-expanding welfare budget’. 

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