Labour was embroiled in a row over defence spending today after minister Wes Streeting opened fire on a senior backbencher who criticised the Budget.
The Defence Secretary accused Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, chairman of the Commons Defence Committee, of being ‘unfair’ about John Healey’s financial plans for the military.
Mr Dhesi, the Labour MP for Slough, last night said that key defence decisions about how to improve the UK’s military had been ‘lamentably delayed’ until a new spending review next year.
Amid questions over when Mr Healey will set out plans for defence spending to hit 3 per cent of GDP, the chairman of the cross-party
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