Healey Faces ‘True Extent’ Of Defence Budget Problem | Larisa Brown

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“It all costs an awful lot of money. I'm sort of wondering now he’s in the Treasury, is he realising the true extent of the problem?” Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting have been “very keen to avoid” questioning on the defence budget, says The Times’s defence editor Larisa Brown, as the chancellor grapples with how to balance his aims as the former defence secretary and the realities of the Treasury. Larisa Brown and Carol Lewis were speaking to Carolyn Quinn in for Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio. Listen live every Monday-Thursday, 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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