Kiran Stacey
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464 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
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And that's a real challenge to Andy Burnham now.
Keir Starmer has very publicly said this would be new borrowing.
This is not a good idea.
Does Andy Burnham decide to pick up an idea that Keir Starmer's own advisers were urging him to pursue just a few months ago, in fact, just a few weeks ago?
Or does he listen to what the prime minister has just said publicly and find another way of getting extra money, if he does at all, for defence?
Just in the terms of the sheer amount, defence sources say it's not enough.
And we know that the Ministry of Defence actually asked for £28 billion extra spending.
They've ended up with £15 billion, some of which is recycled from within the MOD's budget.
So this falls quite far short of what was asked for by military chiefs a few months ago.
Having said that, the Treasury counters that, wait a second, we did a defence review last year.
You told us that was fully funded.
And now you've come back to ask us for tens of billions of extra spending.
We can't simply carry on like that.
And so you've ended up in this position where neither side probably is particularly happy.
There is more money going into AI, there is more money going into drones.
Military experts would say that's not enough, but then they always do.
And Treasury types will tell you that the MOD has a record of mismanaging major projects.
if anything, maybe a slightly more incremental approach where you raise defence spending a bit more slowly and track the projects a bit more carefully as they go through the system.
They think that would work better.
Thanks for having me.
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