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TORY MPs are in “open rebellion” over the government’s failure to find more funding for the armed forces, Labour pointed out yesterday.
Shadow defence secretary Nia Griffith said Tory backbenchers were up in arms following reports at the weekend that Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood could resign over the issue.
Conservative MP James Gray has warned of a “very substantial rebellion” in the Tory ranks.
Only an ambitious programme of state-led investment can restore growth and improve living standards, argues MICHAEL BURKE
The present drive to war is a cynical and deliberate diversion from deteriorating living standards, argues MATT KERR
While politicians fixate on defence budgets, the real answers lie in peace-building and economic justice, says ALAN SIMPSON