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Prime Minister Keir Starmer was on the defensive at PMQs, where Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch attacked him for leaving a mess for Andy Burnham over defence spending.
The Makerfield MP will have to find an extra £4.7 billion for defence, after the prime minister announced a £15 billion spending increase Monday, almost a third of which is not yet funded.
Rachel Reeves has dismissed claims that she has left a £4.7 billion black hole for Andy Burnham to sort out.
The chancellor says it’s normal to find those sorts of sums from her overall budget of hundreds of billions.
