Starmer unveils extra £15bn for UK defence, with some road and energy projects scrapped to fund rise – politics live

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced an extra fifteen billion pounds for UK defence—the largest military spending increase since the Cold War ended. The money comes from scrapping some road and energy projects, a trade-off Starmer justified at Malloy Aeronautics, a drone manufacturer, this morning. National security is economic security, he said, as the world has shifted. According to The Guardian World, the move reprioritizes government spending toward military readiness.

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