The shadow chancellor has said the best way the UK can shield itself from global instability is to “have a strong economy ourselves [as] that will give us the capacity to properly fund defence”.
Andrew Griffith said: “One of the weaknesses in our armoury is the lack of funding for the government’s own independent defence plan. Something three days into my role as shadow chancellor, I set out how we would fund that.”
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