Britain faces a ‘blood cost’ if Labour keeps dithering on defence, Keir Starmer was warned last night.
Former Nato chief General Sir Richard Shirreff said the country could suffer ‘catastrophic costs’ unless the Government moves to shore up our defences immediately.
On Sunday night, ministers were still wrangling over a Treasury raid designed to free up resources to part-fund a strategic defence review completed more than a year ago. One insider described the talks on the Defence Investment Plan as ‘chaos’.
Defence sources told the Daily Mail that at the end of the process the Ministry of Defence could be left with barely
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