European borders as deadly as ever, activists warn on 7th anniversary of Alan Kurdi's death
PEACE campaigners have accused Liz Truss of “spitting in the faces” of people struggling to make ends meet after it was revealed her military spending pledge could cost the public £157 billion.
The Foreign Secretary has committed to increasing the defence budget to 3 per cent of GNP by the end of the decade as part of her bid to become Tory leader.
New analysis of the pledge by think tank the Royal United Services Institute, published today, shows that this would mean spending £157bn, which would amount to the biggest rise in military spending since the cold war arms race of the early 1950s and add 5p in the pound to income tax.
As a proportion of GDP the total welfare bill is lower than it was 15 years ago. The claim that it is spiralling out of control is mythmaking, argues DIANE ABBOTT
New PM slashes fuel bills and culls Starmer deadwood, but peace activists warn that placing John Healey as new Chancellor shows ‘beyond doubt that the military industrial complex is in charge of Burnham’s economic policy’
SOPHIE BOLT argues that spending more on military will harm rather than benefit Britain by diverting vital resources away from essential public services
