“It was in the past few days, because I only saw the formal draft, as many of the public did when it was published by the Treasury alongside the Defence Investment Plan.”
“two thirds of that increase has been funded by asking other departments to give up 1P in the pound of their capital budgets and move that money to defence. £4.7billion of that increased defence budge…”
“That's why when the Prime Minister set out that we need to be ready to respond to a potential Russian attack by 2030, we're doing that by increasing that readiness.”
