UK needs to have a strong economy to fund defence in a volatile world, says shadow chancellor
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The shadow chancellor has said the best way the UK can shield itself from global instability is to "have a strong economy ourselves [as] that will give us the capacity to properly fund defence". Andrew Griffith said: "One of the weaknesses in our armoury is the lack of funding for the government's own independent defence plan. Something three days into my role as shadow chancellor, I set out how we would fund that." Read the latest: https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-burnham-labour-badenoch-farage-polanski-12593360 #uk #nato #russia #ukraine #oil #donaldtrump #unitedstates SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/skynews Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skynews Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@skynews For more content go to http://news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sky-ne
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