It increasingly appears, as Admiral Lord West suggested yesterday, that ‘smoke and mirrors’ are Labour’s principal offerings when it comes to the defence budget.
Only ten days after being appointed as Defence Secretary, Wes Streeting repeatedly refused to commit to the 2030 target of 3 per cent of GDP on military spending. It came after Andy Burnham did likewise, preferring instead to move the goalposts to an entirely different Nato deadline.
Yet as has become abundantly clear since he received the keys to No10, the Prime Minister is happy to throw public money around in practically every other direction.
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