Kiran Stacey
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464 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
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I'm also told that Keir Starmer grew increasingly frustrated at Rachel Reeves herself, blaming her for her intransigence, for not finding the extra money that he believed was needed and that John Healy believed was needed.
I should say it was all smiles today as we were here in Maidenhead.
And Keir Starmer actually gave some very warm, very heartfelt comments about Rachel Reeves that almost seemed like he was trying to pitch her as chancellor in a future Andy Burnham government.
But this has caused deep, deep divisions within the Labour government.
Really good question.
And we asked that question to the prime minister in their Q&A afterwards, and he didn't really answer it.
Did Andy Burnham get a sight of this before it was published?
As far as we can tell, he didn't.
We are told by allies of Burnham that he is happy to take this as his settlement.
Right.
He probably would like, for publicity reasons apart from anything else, to be able to announce a bit of extra money when he comes in.
But there was one, I thought, really significant moment in today's press conference.
The Prime Minister started talking at length about why it is not a good idea.
to borrow to pay for more defence spending.
And specifically, he mentioned the idea of defence bonds.
Now, the reason he did this is because this is an idea, not that's coming from some opposition party, but from within his own government.
In fact, I'm told that very senior people at Number 10 had nearly signed off on the idea of creating special defence bonds to pay for higher military spending.
But in the end, it ended up getting blocked by the Treasury, which didn't like the idea of extra borrowing full stop.
Today, Keir Starmer made it very clear that he now backed that treasury position.
He didn't think it was a good idea to borrow extra for defense, even if you create a new type of bond to do so.
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