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Next chancellor will have to find £5bn to fund black hole in defence funding, government figures reveal – as it happened

Keir Starmer earlier unveiled a £15bn plan but said defence spending cannot be ‘bottomless pit’ and MoD has to ‘spend better’ Keir Starmer is speaking now. They are at Malloy Aeronautics, a firm that designs heavy-lift drones, and Starmer says this morning...

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Keir Starmer earlier unveiled a £15bn plan but said defence spending cannot be ‘bottomless pit’ and MoD has to ‘spend better’ Keir Starmer is speaking now. They are at Malloy Aeronautics, a firm that designs heavy-lift drones, and Starmer says this morning...

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Keir Starmer earlier unveiled a £15bn plan but said defence spending cannot be ‘bottomless pit’ and MoD has to ‘spend better’ Keir Starmer is speaking now. They are at Malloy Aeronautics, a firm that designs heavy-lift drones, and Starmer says this morning...

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