In the light of what George Robertson, who led the strategic defence review for Labour, said about defence spending in his speech last night, there’s a good chance Kemi Badenoch will choose to raise this at PMQs later.
She may well raise the Times’s splash, which says Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is proposing to raise defence spending by less than £10bn over the next four years.
In their story, Steven Swinford and Larisa Brown report:
The State of It political podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times has been told that Reeves is unwilling to break her fiscal rules
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