Keir Starmer has promised defence spending will reach 2.5% of GDP by 2027 and 3% in the next Parliament. There’s been some sparring over exactly how much money this equates to, has a maths crime been committed? And how far can this money go?
Hannah Barnes is joined by political editor Andrew Marr and business editor Will Dunn, and later in the programme by Phil Whitaker, GP and the New Statesman’s health writer, to speak about the shake up at the top of NHS England.
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