‘Weak’ Starmer Chose Welfare Over Defence | Andrew Neil
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“When it came to a choice between funding the cost of rearming our country in dangerous times, or continuing, as this government has been, with a rapid increase in welfare benefits, benefits street won.” Andrew Neil says Keir Starmer is “too weak to be able to to knock heads together” and was therefore unable to command Rachel Reeves to find more money for the defence investment plan. Andrew Neil was speaking on The Times at One. Listen live on Times Radio every Monday-Thursday from 1-2pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/
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