Keir Starmer will finally publish the long-overdue Defence Investment Plan today – including a £5billion drone ‘transformation’.
But the outgoing Prime Minister drew scorn after it emerged only £1billion of this is fresh investment, with a £4billion drone programme having been announced last year.
Critics fear that whatever is in the plan, which is being released more than a year after it was promised, will be massaged figures and repackaged promises, rather than a blueprint to keep Britain safe in future warfare.
The bid to manufacture hundreds of thousands of drones over the next four years is a major part of the DIP.
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