The Defence Investment Plan was published! Some doubted the day would ever dawn. But just as when Odysseus’s mast was spotted from Ithaca on the wine-dark horizon, an epic journey was finally complete.
Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis made a Commons statement on the long-delayed Plan’s arrival. Rachel Reeves, beside him on the front bench, looked tearful. It must have been pride. Unless the poor sausage is having another of her wobbles.
The Plan was 80 pages carved from political bone and gristle, complete with an introduction by, and photograph of, Mr Jarvis.
He has been in office for only two weeks. In that
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