Starmer’s Defence Plan Is Just ‘Rearranging The Furniture’ | Melanie Phillips
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“As ever, increases in public spending include decreases in public spending, in that it involves the British Army having to make cuts.” Starmer’s defence investment plan includes “high level financial chicanery and trickery” but still has a “shortfall” and a “black hole” says The Times columnist Melanie Phillips. Melanie Phillips was speaking to Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio. Listen live every Monday to Thursday from 10am-1pm. 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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