In what may be the last significant policy decision of his premiership, Sir Keir Starmer has announced how much extra money he has found to spend on defence over the next four years.

Starmer will publish full funding plans for the Defence Investment Plan (Dip), the government’s 10-year blueprint for the armed forces.

The new defence investment plan has allocated £14.5bn to fund Britain’s defence, still falling well short of the £28bn officials previously said was needed