Burnham left to find £4.7bn to fund a black hole in Starmer’s defence spending plan

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

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The outgoing Prime Minister drew scorn after it emerged only £1billion of this is fresh investment, with a £4billion drone programme having been announced last year.

Prime minister set to press ahead with his defence investment plan despite high-profile resignations over spending

Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer unveiled his much criticised defence investment plan – here’s what he said

LONDON: Outgoing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Tuesday that Britain would spend almost £300 billion ($397 billion) over the next four years to modernize its armed…

Starmer said his legacy on defence represented the "changes and the challenges that have defined my premiership".

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has unveiled a £15 billion Defence Investment Plan, aiming to bolster Britain's military for future conflicts. This significant funding boost will…

Outgoing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday that Britain would spend a "record" of almost £300 billion ($397 billion) over the next four years to modernise its armed…

The prime minister unveiled his long-awaited defence investment plan on Tuesday after months of delays

While Sir Keir Starmer has promised the DIP will reverse the ‘corrosive hollowing out’ of the armed forces, the funding package still falls well short of the £28bn military…

Sir Keir Starmer was accused of serving 'half measures' today after his Defence Investment Plan failed to deliver desperately needed funds for the Armed Forces.

Prime Minister announces an extra £15bn to be spent on defence - but £4.7bn won't be found until the Budget, when Burnham is likely to be in No 10

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…

Editorial: The widely-criticised Defence Investment Plan may be a small step in the right direction, but is underfunded, overdue, and thus a strange reflection on the priorities…

Ally of PM-in-waiting says four-year boost for the armed forces is an ‘unexploded bomb’

What Starmer announced in yesterday's Defence Investment Plan is woefully inadequate. In reality, a huge shortfall is built into the defence budget. And it's likely to get bigger…

Sir Keir Starmer passed the buck to Andy Burnham on defence yesterday after short-changing Britain's military.

On his way out the door, the British prime minister unveiled the UK’s long-awaited defence spending plan, but the grand vision falls short of the US president’s demands on NATO…

Keir Starmer’s legacy on defense leaves Andy Burnham with an unenviable task: finding billions of pounds from elsewhere.