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Starmer’s Defence Shell Game:

The Brutal Math the Treasury Hopes You Ignore

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Glodi Ntoya
Jul 01, 2026
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Keir Starmer has finally announced his new defence plan. Frankly, God knows we have been waiting for this for a long time.

The BBC reports that the government will add £15 billion to defence funding. But to pay for this, they are making major cuts elsewhere. As the new Defence Secretary admitted today, these were “difficult but necessary choices.”

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