“The two big questions are: is there enough money in the kitty to build all these things, including the six new common combat vessels, and will they be built in time?“
With reports that heir-apparent prime minister Andy Burnham has accepted Keir Starmer’s new £15 billion defence investment plan, The Times’s former defence editor Michael Evans says that the government should get on with “funding the military properly”.
Michael Evans was speaking to Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio. Listen live every Monday to Thursday from 10am-1pm.
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