Can the UK authorities justify spending extra on defence | FT #shorts

It’s not simply the Trump administration attacking the UK’s defence capabilities. Now a Labour grandee and former head of Nato, Lord George Robertson, has accused Sir Keir Starmer of ‘corrosive complacency’ over delays to defence spending. ⁠

With the 10-year plan for defence caught in impasse, chief political commentator Robert Shrimsley and deputy political editor Jim Pickard talk about the alternatives dealing with the prime minister.⁠

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