Dan Jarvis, the new defence secretary, will have to make ‘very significant cuts’ in his department if he cannot secure more cash in the next two weeks.
The offer made by Sir Keir Starmer to increase defence spending by £13.5billion over the next four years, shared with Jarvis’ predecessor John Healey before he resigned, would have left the Ministry of Defence without enough money for its existing equipment programme.
It would have meant that the strategic defence review – the UK’s plan to make Britain ‘secure at home and strong abroad’ – unachievable, the Times reports.
Officials working to balance the books reportedly
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