Donald Trump‘s America waded into the row over funding for Britain’s Armed Forces today with a senior official saying the world needed more UK ‘military strength’.
US under-secretary of war, Elbridge Colby heaped pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to act as the beleaguered Prime Minister reeled from the resignation of two of his defence ministers over a lack of cash for the Ministry of Defence.
Sir Keir is under pressure to bring forward a major programme of spending amid fears that the Treasury is trying to provide as little as it can, possibly as little as £10billion, little more than a third
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