Keir Starmer dodged today on whether Andy Burnham has agreed to fill a near-£5billion ‘unexploded bomb’ in his new defence plans.
At a bad-tempered PMQs, Sir Keir insisted that ‘any Labour prime minister’ would stand behind his package.
But he repeatedly ducked demands from Kemi Badenoch to say whether his successor – who was nowhere to be seen in the House – had signed off.
The Tory leader said the Government was scrabbling for money because ‘he was too weak to cut welfare when he had the chance’.
She argued that the only ways of freeing up funding were tax rises, cuts to services, or
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