Article 6VGJT Starmer defends slashing aid budget to raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP - UK politics live

Starmer defends slashing aid budget to raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP - UK politics live

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Andrew Sparrow
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Keir Starmer says now is the time to deepen European security, as he announces new defence budget by 2027

The rightwing historian Niall Ferguson is in the audience for Badenoch's speech, according to James Heale from the Spectator.

Niall Ferguson spotted at Kemi Badenoch's big speech on foreign affairs... hearing we might get some policy too

Tractors' horns interrupt Badenoch's speech shortly after she begins speaking. Attendant spinner heard swearing furiously

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