Healey Refuses To Rule Out Tax Hikes For 3% Defence Spending ‘Aim’

The wheels have come off Labour’s much-trumpeted Strategic Defence Review after Starmer ditched the pledge to spend 3% of GDP on defence by 2034 – the very target on which the review’s 62 recommendations were based. Recommendations that Starmer has now accepted…

Defence Secretary John Healey was rolled out on the morning round to provide little clarity on the government’s plan.[…] Read the rest